Nintendo results for Q1 of fiscal year ending March 2025 (Switch hits 143.42 million sold)

Nintendo has just shared their financial results for Q1 of the Fiscal Year ending March 2025, and we’ve combed through the data for all the juicy details. We’ve put together a complete breakdown of the sales results, hardware totals, future software release dates and more. You can find all of that below.

FINANCIAL RESULTS

• Switch has reached 143.42 million units sold worldwide
• total number of million-seller titles during the period was 3
• hardware sales for this period totaled 2.10 million units (a decrease of 46.3% year-on-year)
• software sales totaled 30.64 million units (a decrease of 41.3% year-on-year)
• digital sales reached 80.7 billion yen (a decrease of 32.6% year-on-year)
• mobile and IP related business sales totaled 14.7 billion yen (a decrease of 53.8% year-on-year)
• operating profit was 54.5 billion yen
• ordinary profit came to 113.4 billion yen
• net profit attributable to owners of parent totaled 80.9 billion yen
• Nintendo attributes decline in mobile and IP related sales mainly to “decrease in income from visual content related to The Super Mario Bros. Movie”

FISCAL YEAR 2024-2025 FORECAST

• sales of 1,350.0 billion yen
• operating profit of 400.0 billion yen
• ordinary profit of 420.0 billion yen
• profit attributable to owners of parent of 300.0 billion yen
• Switch hardware sales of 13.5 million
• Switch software sales of 165 million
• These numbers have not changed at all since the previous financial report’s forecast

GAME SALES INFO (Total lifetime sales)

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe sold 62.90M units
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold 45.85M units
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate sold 34.66M units
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild sold 32.05M units
• Super Mario Odyssey sold 28.21M units
• Pokémon Sword and Shield sold 26.35M units
• Pokémon Scarlet and Violet sold 25.29M units
• Super Mario Party sold 20.84M units
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold 20.80M units
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe sold 17.61M units
• Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door sold 1.76M units
• Princess Peach: Showtime! sold 1.30M units
• Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD sold 1.19M units

HARDWARE SALES

• Switch’s lifetime sales total sits at 143.42 million units
• unit sales for the entire Switch family fell by 46.3% year-on-year, reaching 2.10 million units
• the standard Switch sold 0.53 million units, down 18.4% year-on-year
• Switch OLED sold 1.24 million units, down 56.1% year-on-year
• Switch Lite sold 0.33 million units, down 23.2% year-on-year
• Nintendo notes that the previous fiscal year was much higher due to the combined selling power of The Super Mario Bros. Movie and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

DIGITAL SALES

• digital sales reached 80.7 billion yen, down 32.6% year-on-year
• the portion of digital sales sits at 58.9%

SWITCH FIRST PARTY SOFTWARE RELEASE CALENDAR

FUTURE INITIATIVES

• The new Super Mario animated film set for release in Japan on April 24, 2026 and April 3, 2026 in the US
• The Legend of Zelda live-action film collaboration with Arad Productions Inc.
• Donkey Kong Country area at Super Nintendo World at Universal Studios Japan in second half of 2024
• Nintendo Museum scheduled to open in Uji City, Kyoto
• Nintendo San Francisco scheduled to open in 2025