Nintendo reported financial results for the six months ended September 30. It found the company’s net sales reached 657 billion yen ($4.5 billion).
During the six-month period reported, 6.7 million Switch series systems were sold, bringing the lifetime total to 114.3 million units.
Broken down, the standard Switch sold 2.23 million units, the Switch OLED sold a total of 3.53 million units, and the Switch Lite moved 92,000 units during the period.
Nintendo said hardware sales fell 19% year over year to a reported 6.7 million units due to factors such as continued shortages of semiconductors and other components.
In terms of software sales, every game released during the period sold well, with Splatoon 3 and Nintendo Switch Sports off to a good start with sales of 7.9 million and 6.15 million units, respectively. Mario Striker: Battle League sold 2.17 million units and Xenoblade Chronicles 3 sold 1.72 million units.
In addition, the report said that sales of games released as of the end of the last fiscal year were stable. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 3.07 million units (48.4 million cumulative), while Kirby and the Forgotten moved 2.6 million (5.3 million cumulative), making it the best-selling to date Kirby game.
Game sales from other software publishers also continued to grow steadily, bringing the total number of games sold in millions during the period to 15, including games from other software publishers. Due to these factors, total software sales increased 1.6% year over year to 95.4 million units.
Moving to the digital business, packaged software for the downloadable version of the Nintendo Switch sold well, and Nintendo Switch Online sales also grew. In addition, sales of games from other software publishers, as well as download-only titles, grew in addition to Nintendo titles, which helped drive digital sales to 189 billion yen ($1.3 billion), up 30% year-over-year – more than a year .
