Nintendo FY Q3 Results (Switch 32.3m LT, Smash Bros 12m, Pokemon 10m..)

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Yeah, unfortunely Nintendo wont reach those 20 million units sold this fiscal year.Sad, but 17 millions(or even a bit more) is still really good, especially comparing to the comüpetition and that the Switch had no price cut as of yet.

But the software.... good lord, the software is doing bonkers!I mean, the evergreen are constantly selling millions each quarter(did especially well in the holidays for obvious reasons), so that at this pace, MK 8 Deluxe, Mario Odyssey and Smash are garanteed to pass 20 million, at the very least.But even others like Pokemon did beyond my expectations.I mean, I througly expected it to do well, but I imagined that it would be around 7 millions by the end of december, not 10 million!

But man, I think one of the biggest surprises here is Super Mario Party.We all knew it would sell well, but not this well!If I am not mistaken, I think its currently the third best selling Mario Party game, and I think its not far from the other two.The best selling MP game is really close to 10 millions, and even if SMP slows its pace, it will still eventually catch up.This game is a monster.Nintendo really needs to announce more (hopefully free) content for it to keep pushing those sales foward.

With Aces being the best selling Mario Tennis ever, hopefully Nintendo pays more attention to Camelot.I dont know is Camelot is fully owned by Nintendo(and thus an internal studio), but even if they arent, I really want Nintendo to pay more attention to them and either give them a bigger budget to make their game, or invest in them for them to have a bigger budget and bigger teams.I want a new Golden Sun dammit!

And gotta say, Im slightly dissapointed in Octopath sales.Dont get me wrong, they are great.The game is basically at 1.3 million right now.But I honestly expected for it to have sold more than 1.5 million by now, and eventually sold a bit more than XC 2 by the end of its life.1.5 million is basically garanteed at this point and 2 million is still on the table though, so if Square dosent cheap out with the sequel like they did with Bravely Default, we could be seeing a great new franchise being born.

Overall, extremely happy with Nintendo performance this quarter.Im just not happy that Nintendo didnt share some tidbit on how XC 2 performer this quarter, but Im good.