Just to specify that despite the launch of the new consoles, Nintendo plans to make more money this fiscal year than they originally announced.
Furukawa: "Animal Crossing: New Horizons becoming a major hit and encouraging hardware purchases among so many consumers goes beyond impacting the business this one year and is extremely significant to the overall Nintendo Switch life cycle."
That's 15 titles from Nintendo selling over a million copies each in six months, including every single one of their retail releases from this fiscal year.
Nintendo's business is just on cloud nine right now, with KPIs performing even better than last year in the Switch's fourth year on the market.
They didn't mention Age of Calamity because in Japan it is published by Koei Tecmo.
Looking at the success of Paper Mario The Origami King, with a period of merely two months from reveal to launch, I really hope Nintendo will take advantage of this stage of the Nintendo Switch's lifecycle to revive and reinvigorate older, now obscure franchises.
Shuntaro Furukuwa literally forgot about Pikmin 3 Deluxe. (In the presence of Shigeru Miyamoto.) 👀
Nintendo just made the first official mention of their "next gaming system." 20XX.
Zelda and Smash added another million in three months. And trust me: Animal Crossing New Horizons will become the best selling title on Nintendo Switch... as soon as the end of this second quarter.
Look at that graph. Look at these numbers. Let's face it: Nintendo Switch 2020 is Animal Crossing.
"In our mobile business, we will focus on operations that encourage more consumers to continue to enjoy playing the applications that have been previously released."
Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition reached 1.32 million units, and Clubhouse Games 51 Worldwide Classics sold 1.03 million units.
Furukawa: "We would like to express our apologies for the inconvenience experienced by many consumers due to a shortage of Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch Lite."
So one minimum trading unit of Nintendo's stock is currently worth roughly $50,000. We told them about the Wii U but they wouldn't listen.
"With Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the speed at which it sold initially was far higher than originally expected. Consumers had high expectations for this title from the start, and so we thought we should aim to achieve total lifetime sales at around the level we’re at now, but sales numbers have grown faster than we expected right from release."
Just so you know, Animal Crossing New Horizons sold 13.41 million units in six weeks.
18 titles published by Nintendo sold more a million copies within this last fiscal year, and that includes Astral Chain.
"Regarding the impact of COVID-19 on our earnings forecasts, production and sales volumes may decrease for a certain period of time, but we anticipate that production and sales will be able to meet demand for the full year and that we will be able to release software titles now in development as planned."
"It appears that delays in production and shipping are gradually recovering."
"Animal Crossing: New Horizons, released in March, sold 11.77 million units, which is now the best start ever for a Nintendo Switch title."