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Title: Nintendo Releases First Quarter Results For 2026-27 Fiscal Year
Post by: Shaymin on August 06, 2026, 03:17:39 AM

The only thing bigger than the digital sales ratio is the profit growth.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/76701/nintendo-releases-first-quarter-results-for-2026-27-fiscal-year

Nintendo has released its results for the first fiscal quarter (April 1 - June 30) of the fiscal year, and though it would seem to be a tough comparison to last year which had the Switch 2 launch, year 2 definitely got off to a better start in the profit / loss department.

All figures quoted in yen with a US$1 = ¥157.86 rate used to provide US$ figures for comparison only.

Financial indicators

Revenue: ¥517.813b ($3.28b), down 9.57% year over year.

Operating income: ¥142.596b ($903.3b), up 150.48% (note 1).

Ordinary income: ¥206.15b (~$1.306b), up 115.14%.

Digital sales: ¥132.7b ($840.62b), up 90.11% (note 2).

Mobile / IP revenue: ¥34.8b (~$220.45m), up 108.38% (note 3).

Hardware Results

Switch 2 shipped 3.82m units in the quarter for a new lifetime total of 23.68m units to pass the GameCube. It will likely pass the N64 (32.93m) during the holiday quarter.

The Switch shipped 660k units during the quarter for a new lifetime total of 156.59m, needing 3.51m shipments to pass the last reported number of the moving target that is the PlayStation 2. (Note 4)

New Software

Tomodachi Life: Living the Dream was the big mover of the quarter with opening shipments of 7.94m copies: this is already more than the 3DS version (6.73m) shipped in its lifetime which began in 2012.

Neither of the full-release Switch 2 games - Yoshi and the Mysterious Book and Star Fox - were noted to have shipped 1m units in this quarter, though Star Fox was only available for five days.

Catalogue Sales

Mario Kart World has expanded its lead as the Switch 2's biggest game, shippeing 1.36m units to stand at 15.39m total and an approximate 65% attach rate. Lifetime sales of the Switch 2 edition of Super Mario Party Jamboree have reached 1.15m, making it the first Switch 2 edition that didn't launch day and date with the Switch version (Pokemon Legends: Z-A) to ship a million physical copies. (Note 5)

There was no change in the order of the Switch top 10, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe shipped another 940k copies for a Nolan Ryan-esque 71.53m sales.

Notes:

  1. Nintendo received its refund of tariffs ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court during this quarter, which were used to offset expenses and resulted in higher income figures.
  2. This was 82.6% of software sales in the quarter: for comparison the highest quarter last year was 81.9% with the launch of Pokemon Legends: Z-A across Switch 2 and Switch.
  3. All royalties from the theatrical run of the Super Mario Galaxy Movie were here since it premiered on April 1.
  4. The shipments were 160k Switch, 180k Switch Lite, and 330k OLED: presumably the official total is rounded down.
  5. Purchasing an upgrade pack for a Switch 2 edition goes into digital sales, and purchasing the game + upgrade pack digitally counts as a purchase of the Switch game since it can technically be used on Switch as well.