Nintendo Quarterly Sales Update to 30th June: Switch at 143.42m shipped

[Mar1217]

Tober said:

Norion said:

I know, to be more clear my point with pointing out the increase was due to it being noteworthy cause of how unusually large it is. It won't be going anywhere for the Switch 2 of course though I do think it's possible that by the early 2030's it'll have declined by so much that there's at least a small chance they forgo it for the following system. If not then I'd bet on that system being the last ever major console to have it.

It's important to note that the mentioned 58.9% Digital sales includes revenue of NSO subsriptions and DLC and is not just the digital software portion of Nintendo published games only.

Source Page 20: https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2024/240802_2e.pdf

The second box top row shows the Proportion of Digital sales of total Software sales as 58.9%. The Third box top row shows how much of that was digital versions of packaged Nintendo published software at 42.2%.

Given their own calculation method:

Digital Sales: Includes (a) downloadable version of packaged software (the downloadable version of software that is offered both physically and digitally), (b) download-only software, (C) add-on content and (d) Nintendo Switch Online, etc.
・Proportion of Digital Sales: Proportion of digital sales to total dedicated video game platform software sales
・Proportion of Downloadable Versions of Packaged Software Sales: Proportion of downloadable versions of packaged software sales to total digital sales [= a/(a+b+c+d)]

That means 42.2% of 58.9% of sales where digital sales of also available as packaged software. Or in other words 24.86% according to my understanding.

ps. Any digital portion of non-Nintendo published games cannot be determined, because this report only talks about Nintendo revenue.

Yeah, I forgot about the part where they were counting the NSO and DLC revenue into the mix. Meaning the unit ratio of digital vs physical of packaged games is still largely physical, especially for the biggest and richest release as expected.

Though I wonder how much of the digital revenue the NSO and Mario Kart 8 Booster Course Pass would take alone ...