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Nintendo Nintendo's fiscal year ending March 2025: Sales down 30% and operating profit down 46%.

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Translated from Japanese:
Nintendo's fiscal year ending March 2025: Sales down 30% and operating profit down 46%. This is a backlash from the huge success of "Tear King" in the previous fiscal year. Sales are expected to increase 63% this fiscal year with the release of the Switch 2.
https://gamebiz.jp/news/405344

source:
www.nintendo.co.jp

IR Information : Financial Results Announcement/IR Events

www.nintendo.co.jp

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anonpuffs said:
I wonder if Nintendo held off on switch 2 so long despite having the hardware ready 2+ years ago, because they wanted to try and beat the ps2 record. It really feels like it lol
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It was delayed because they wanted to avoid shortages and because some of their games weren’t ready for the launch window. But. I wouldn’t be surprised if they also delayed it to milk sales. lol
 
Normal numbers for a sunseting console in a slow year with smaller, weak filler titles just before being replaced by its succesor.

anonpuffs said:
I wonder if Nintendo held off on switch 2 so long despite having the hardware ready 2+ years ago, because they wanted to try and beat the ps2 record. It really feels like it lol
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I assume they did it because maybe saw that Switch 1 still had potential to continue selling during a longer period than they originally planned, and also maybe to give some extra time to the devs working in the Switch 2 games.

But yes, feels like they stretched it on purpose, maybe to beat the DS and have their own new record.
 
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I wouldn't worry about it... Anticipation for the Switch 2 is there and everyone is holding their wallets for it.
 
Evilms said:
LTD : 152.12M
  • FCT FY2026 : 4.5M = 156.62M
  • FCT FY2027 : 2.0M = 158.62M
  • FCT FY2028 : 0.5~1M = 159.12 or 159.62M (and after probably the ending production)
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Yup,
Combined Nintendo is gonna make and ship 19.5 millions consoles between s1 and s2.
And it seems the reason for the big S1 drop is because Nintendo is going to make less s1 to make more s2. So Nintendo themselves is killing the s1 to force migration to s2 which is backwards compatible, so why keep both in the market at the same time when they can sell you a $500 console and $80 games instead with s2?

My prediction; Switch 1 life time at 158 million.

They will sell the 4.5 million they plan on shipping this year.
Then 1 million the following year, then they discontinue. By then they should be shipping close to 25 million s2 per year.
 
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AllBizness said:
Surprised sales fell off this hard. You'd think parents would still be buying Switch in droves because it's cheap.
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Don’t think it’s because of demand. I think Nintendo is intentionally making less to force s2 migration and adoption.
 
Concurseiro do Futuro said:
Xbox made 4x more revenue than Nintendo last quarter.
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Xbox (and PS) calculate revenue differently where they take 100% of the money made on a third party sale as revenue and then record the 70% they owe the publisher as a cost (which Xbox conveniently hides since they don't reveal their costs or profit margins, unlike PlayStation).

Nintendo only calculates the 30% cut they take as revenue, which is automatically profit for them.

Basically, Xbox's revenue numbers are inflated (or Nintendo's are understated, depending on how you look at it) and don't say anything about profitability which is what really matters.
 
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