Nintendo opened the financial report in the first three quarters of the year of the 2025 Financial Annual. Nintendo Switch’s sales exceeded 150 million units. From April 1st to December 31st, 2024, the company’s sales amount was 956.2 billion yen, a year -on -year decrease of 31.4 %, and operating profit of 247.5 billion yen. The year -on -year decrease of 46.7%. The official year -on -year -old annual financial test announced on November 5 last year. The sales amount decreased by 7 percentage points and revenue was repaired by 22%.
In addition, Nintendo once again confirmed that Nintendo Switch 2 will be released in 2025. On April 2nd, the NS2 face -to -face meeting and the next global experience meeting remain unchanged.
Based on the experience of Switch’s hot sale in the past, the situation of derivative high -priced resale was serious. President Kagawa Taro said in the Nikkei report that the company actively did Switch 2 is well prepared in the early stage of sale“ensure sufficient inventory meets demand”, and be confident of reducing problems such as scalpers’ resale at high prices, so as to achieve a “starting sprint” that existing organic species cannot achieve.
According to previous reports from this site, Nintendo plans to hold Switch 2 experience meetings in Japan, South Korea, Europe and the United States, Taiwan and other places from April to June. It is estimated that the release time may fall around July when the experience will end.
The market expects that Switch 2 in the early stage of sale will be twice the same (at least) of previous generations. When Switch was listed in early March 2017, more than 4.7 million units accumulated in the first 4 months. In the scale of nearly 10 million, you can successfully avoid the resale of the scarlet speculation.
In response to the situation under the annual financial measurement, because Nintendo Switch’s eight -year product life cycle has reached the end, the official adjustment of the previous three seasons “Switch’s hardware and software sales are lower than expected”.
Nintendo also pointed out that there are still many players who continue to play Switch, and the number of active players of the year remainsMore than 100 million peopleThe scale of the scale will continue to launch an innovation plan to attract more players.
In the part of the console, as of December 2024, the sales volume of Nintendo Switch exceeded 150 million to 150 million, reaching 150.86 million units, and the game exceeded 1.359.8 million. Compared with the total sales of the Switch hosts updated in September last year, the total sales volume was 146.60 million Taiwan, which sold 4.8 million units in just one season.
If you dare to maintain this momentum before the launch of the successor Switch 2, the first generation of Switch can create a higher number if it is not surprising, and surpass the NDS 154.4 million units, becoming the hottest game console in Nintendo Creation Society in the past century.
In the Switch software, from April to December 2024, a total of 19 games with a sales volume reached a total of 19 models, including works from third -party game developers.
For example, the “Reappearance of the Legend of Salida Wisdom” released in September 2024 sold 3.91 million units, and 6.17 million universal sets of “Super Mario Party” released in October, “Mario Motors 8 Deluxe Edition” It also sold 5.38 million units, with a cumulative sales of 67.35 million units, showing that the old work still maintains stable sales.
However, hardware sales were 9.54 million units, a decrease of 30.6%from the same period of the previous year; software sales were 123.98 million units, a decrease of 24.4%compared with the same period of the previous year.
Official explanation, in May 2023, the “Tears of the Legend of the Kingdom of Salda” and the “Super Mario Brothers” released in October will drive sales. There is a reduction.
The digital business part, due to the decreased sales download version of the SWITCH game, digital sales decreased by 29.0%year -on -year, and due to the box office income of “Super Mario Brothers” in 2023 Fall 33.9%. On the whole, the number of digital revenue in this period was 9,56.2 billion yen (including 76.5%of overseas sales), and operating benefits of 247.5 billion yen, and the final net profit was 237.1 billion yen.
Nintendo said that “Dong Qigang Returns” which has been released in January 2025 and “Alien Sword X Ultimate Edition” which is expected to be released in March will drive sales performance. In addition, third-party game developers are also planning to launch diversified The new game (Pokémon ZA and Mitterrod’s ultimate 4 are unknown), and the company will combine listed games and new works to continue to activate platform ecosystem.
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