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By Sherif Saed,
Thursday, January 30, 2020, 09:39 GMT
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Pokemon Sword and Shield are the best-selling games for this fiscal year's Nintendo Switch.
This morning, Nintendo Announced earnings for the nine months ended December 31 (PDF). Supported by the success of the exclusive games and the launch of Switch Lite, this period is very profitable for the company.
of switch Home sales in the quarter were 17.74 million units, an increase of 22.5% over the same period last year. Now, lifetime sales are as high as 52.48 million, putting Switch ahead of SNES.
Game sales reached the best level in history, an increase of 30.1% compared to last year, and the total reached 121.3 million units.
Pokemon Sword and Pokemon Shield Topped the list, with a total of 16.06 million units sold. Other 2019 first-party games, such as Super Mario Maker 2 and Luigi Building 3 Both are over 5 million units.
In fact, the game sales on the Switch have been very good, in this fiscal year alone, 21 of them sold more than 1 million copies. Nintendo also noted a 48.3% increase in digital revenue, which includes full game downloads, add-ons and Nintendo Switch Online.