Nintendo FY3/2019 2nd Quarter financial briefing recap

Nintendo's FY3/2019 2nd Quarter financial briefing is going on right now. We don't know what will come from the event, but we'll post up any pertinent info. We'll be doing separate posts for the actual slideshow presentation. This post is for the comments from Nintendo's president given at the briefing.

- Nintendo is in a favorable position moving into the holidays
- Nintendo is taking measures to make sure Switch owners play for a long time
- this will include more DLC, in-game events, and more
- chart for Switch sell through in EU/US/JP shows Sept units slowing after peak in June
- Switch Bundle ratio breakdown for September: 60% Odyssey, 50-60% MK8D, 40-50% Zelda: BotW
- digital sales are seeing record growth
- of all digital sales, games that have a physical version account for 60% of the digital sales
- Fortnite continues to show momentum, with people coming together to play
- Octopath Traveler global shipments and download sales reached 1 million units within three weeks of release
- As of October, there were over 500 software publishers selling software for Switch, and worldwide more than 1,300 titles
- Super Mario Party was designed to be simple, fun, and bring people together
- Super Mario Party has sold Oct 1.5m globally and has boosted Joy-Con sales
- Pokemon Lets Go will be easy for first time players and familiar for existing fans
- 50% of those who preorder Pokemon: Let's Go have preorderd the Poke Ball Plus
- Connection Pokemon GO with Pokemon Let's Go for special items and to transfer Pokemon
- Nintendo expects Smash Bros. Ultimate to be their biggest game, and it's the largest industry collab ever
- Nintendo believes Smash Bros. Ultimate will gain popularity with a wide variety of users
- amiibo sold 50m accumulative so far
- Pokemon, Fortnite, and Diablo bundles expected to boost Switch sales
- NES Classic "and all versions" have sold 10 million units to date
- Dragalia Lost has over 1 million users registered, a 4.8 review score, and sales close to 4 billion Yen
- Super Mario Run close to 300 million downloads
- Fire Emblem mobile continues to see growth, overseas active users exceed domestic