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Nintendo's End Of Year Sales Show The Switch Is Killing It

Let's just make this first bit obvious. Nintendo has had an incredible last quarter thanks to the consistently on-demand nature of the Switch console. No one can get enough of that machine, and it is fantastic news for Nintendo as their finances have born out. Their net sales were only up by 3% for the end of year, but considering their Q3 results weren't the greatest, that's not much of a surprise.

Nintendo is looking forward to their Fiscal Year 2017 thanks to the Switch, saying "Nintendo Switch, a new home console system that diversifies the ways you can play games, launched during this period on March 3 worldwide and is off to a promising start. In particular, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has won immense popularity with recorded sales of 2.76 million units (the total units sold including the Wii U version is 3.84 million units) and 1-2-Switch has been generating buzz. Both of these games were released at the same time as the hardware. The sales volume for hardware and software during this period reached 2.74 million units and 5.46 million units respectively."

Nintendo was also positive about their mobile titles. "On the smart device front, we released Super Mario Run, a new action game application featuring Mario, in December for the iOS and March for the Android. This title elicited a fantastic response from consumers worldwide. Furthermore, we released Fire Emblem Heroes, a full-fledged simulation RPG game application that can be enjoyed casually on smart devices, in February. The game is being enjoyed by both long-time fans of the Fire Emblem series and consumers who have never played the series on dedicated video game systems."

Sadly, their Wii U sales were declining as expected.

Nevertheless, things look good for Nintendo. The Switch is off to a fantastic start and Nintendo has more games coming for us. "We will release Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia overseas in May (April in Japan) and plan to release Ever Oasis and Hey! Pikmin in June and July. Furthermore, this year is Kirby's 25th anniversary, so we are planning to release downloadable titles and a new multiplayer action game for Nintendo 3DS."

So we've got a lot to look forward to. You can read Nintendo's full report here.

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