Nintendo talks Switch performance for the first half of the fiscal year, highlights Super Mario Maker 2, Zelda: Link's Awakening, and Fire Emblem: Three Houses

Nintendo released a string of new titles from June through September, as shown here. We’ve assembled a lineup that ranges from sequels to popular titles and to completely new titles, including those that can be enjoyed by a wide range of consumers, from video game fans to those new to playing games.

Initial sell-through for the 13 weeks following the June release of Super Mario Maker 2 represents a 1.5x increase over that of past titles in the series. The cycle of fun created by building Mario courses and playing the new courses uploaded online every day makes this a title that consumers can continuously enjoy. You can see this from the total number of courses uploaded daily
and the number of times those courses have been played. A total of more than 8 million have been uploaded to date. What's more, these courses have been played by consumers a total of more than 400 million times. We anticipate this will become an
evergreen title that consumers continue to play longterm.

This graph compares the sell-through for Fire Emblem: Three Houses, released in July, with the sell-through of past titles in the Fire Emblem series. The gray bars represent total sell-through for each of these titles, while the red portions indicate how much of that sellthrough occurred in the 13 weeks after release. Fire Emblem: Three Houses is off to the best start of any title in the series, with sell-through already exceeding 1.7 million units. The Fire Emblem series has been gaining popularity outside of Japan, especially after the release of Fire Emblem Awakening for Nintendo 3DS. This newest title in the series is selling
well in the North American market, which accounts for over 50% of its overall sell-through.