The road to 20 million is paved with fainted Pikachu.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/48777/nintendo-releases-q2-2018-financial-results
Nintendo has released their results for the first half of the 2018 fiscal year, covering the period from April 1 - September 30th with focus on the period from July 1 - September 30.
All figures expressed in yen, with comparisons to US dollars at press time market rates of $1 = 112.782yn.
Financial indicators
Operating income: 61.405bn yen in six months, 30.870bn in quarter (US ~$544.445m, ~$273.707m)
Ordinary net income: 91.931bn, 48.065bn in quarter (~$815.148m, ~$426.19m)
Revenue: 388.905bn, 220.748bn in quarter (~$3.448bn, ~$1.957bn)
Digital sales: 39.1bn, 20.6bn in quarter (~$346.65m, ~$182.634m)
Mobile revenue: 18.7bn, 9.7bn in quarter (~$165.796m, ~$86m)
Hardware Figures
Switch: 3.19m shipped in three months, LTD 22.86m, surpassing the GameCube by 1.24m, next target is the N64 at 32.93m (9.05m away).
3DS family: 620k shipped, LTD 73.53m.
"Classic Systems": 3.69m between NES and SNES.
Software
Total Switch software:24.17m for the quarter (includes digital releases only if a physical version exists)
Total 3DS software: 3.32m units
Super Mario Odyssey now at 12.17m copies sold in just under a year (1m for the quarter), Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at 11.71m (1.36m for the quarter), and Breath of the Wild Switch now 10.28m (960k for the quarter). Splatoon 2 shipped 710k for the quarter, LTD 7.47m.
Release Schedules
Produced in the gallery. Notable is that Nintendo is listed as the overseas publisher only for Daemon x Machina, and will be publishing Dragon Quest Builders 2 in the West sometime in 2019.
Will 3DS be able to surpass PSP's 76.3 million? Might just be feasible, still, right? Although some estimates put PSP at 82 million, don't think they'll be able to catch that (or even their own GBA, which sits at 81.5 million combined).
