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Nintendo FY3/2019 3rd Quarter Earnings Release - TONS of details
Here it is, boys and girls. All the third quarter sales data from Nintendo you could want. Tomorrow night will be the usual investor Q&A, plus the presentation. For now though, let's pour through all the data on just how well Nintendo did!
Sales Data (hardware, software, and more)
Switch Software Attach rates
MK8D: 46.54%
SMO: 42.64%
SSBU: 37.43%
BOTW: 36.19%
LGPE: 30.99%
Splat2: 25.63%
SMP: 16.42%
12S: 8.86%
MTA: 7.84%
KSA: 7.50%
Various tidbits
- total number of million-seller titles during this quarter was 20, including the titles of other software publishers
- 8 of those 20 million sellers came from third parties
- Switch saw a 19.5% increase in sales year-on-year
- Switch saw a 100.9% increase in software sales year-on-year
- 3DS saw a 60.5% decrease year-on-year basis
- 3DS saw a 64.5% decrease in software sales year-on-year
- NES Classic Edition and Super NES Classic Edition recorded total sales of 5.83 million units during the quarter
- Switch digital sales saw a 95.1% increase year-on-year
- mobile revenue saw a 14.7% increase year-on-year basis
- Nintendo plans to broaden Switch's user base by adding new titles and strengthening sales of popular titles already released
- For 3DS, Nintendo will continue to leverage the platform's rich software library and its hardware install base
- with mobile, Nintendo will focus on continued service operations for applications that have already been released
- Nintendo lowered Switch sales expectations for the fiscal year to 17 million
- Nintendo has increased its full fiscal year Switch software forecast from 100 million to 110 million
- 3DS sales expectations for the fiscal year are 2.6 million
- Smash Bros. Ultimate is Nintendo's fastest-selling home console title ever, sitting at 12.08 million sold
- Super Mario Odyssey sold 13.73 million units, making it the best-selling 3D Mario title by over a million
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is the best-selling Switch game worldwide
- Octopath Traveler shipped 1.08 million in the West, and at least 1.27 million worldwide
- Splatoon 2 is Japan's best-selling Switch game, sitting at 3.33 million
- mobile revenue accounted for just 2% of Nintendo's total, while 3DS accounted for 4%
- the holiday 2018 quarter was the best quarter for Nintendo (in terms of revenue/profit) since holiday 2009
- when adding in the last known total for Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Wii U, the game has sold 13.18 million units between Switch/Wii U
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