Nintendo's proft during the Switch era surpasses the combined profit from 1981 to 2016

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It's well deserved though we also need to remember Switch has had a lot of ground work for it's software in the Wii U era. They basically remastered every game they made in the Wii U era and it sold 10's of millions, this increasing profits. Mario Kart 8 is obviously is the best example of this. Almost no de costs and outselling most new games on the market at barely any costs (which where made in the past) really increase profits. It will.makeva transition hard now that Nintendo is used to making 500 million per year on profit. New activities like the movie and the theme parks licensing surely helped too.