That's for the entire fiscal year though, is it not?  Not the "quarter".

What's amazing is that those sales of MK8 aren't even including the Wii U version! Which sold 8.5M on the Wii U. If you combine them Mario Kart 8 in total sold about 33 Million Units, Mario Kart 8 has the chance to become one of the Top 5 greatest selling games ever if this keeps up

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Switch software is on fire.  Switch hardware is on fire too.  This is like NES and SNES days.  Their core IP is what is selling like crazy.  The Wii had to invent new games like Wii Sports and Wii Fit to sell big.  The DS even had big new IP like Nintendogs and Brain Age.  Sure Switch has new games like this too (1-2 Switch, etc...), but that isn't what is really selling.  Just look at how many games they have that are already "best selling in the series":

Super Smash Bros Ultimate (18.84m)
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (17.41m)
Super Mario Odyssey (17.41m) - best 3D mario
Animal Crossing: New Horizons (13.41m)
Splatoon 2 (10.31m)
Super Mario Party (10.1m)
Luigi's Mansion 3 (6.33m)
Super Mario Maker 2 (5.48m)

That is already 8 games which are the best selling in their series, and on top of that Mario Kart 8 D and Fire Emblem 3 Houses both stand a decent chance to claim that title too.  Switch software is really firing on all cylinders.  These aren't 1-system wonders like Brain Age created to sell to a brand new audience.  This is all established Nintendo IP.  Nintendo is making their core games to become top sellers: Zelda, Mario, Animal Crossing, Smash Bros, etc....  

And here is the thing.  Software sells hardware.  It is baffling to me how some people can be so bearish on Switch hardware sales.  It is the software that is selling at amazing levels.  If so many titles are selling at unprecedented numbers, then what does that say about hardware?  Unprecedented software sales logically lead to unprecedented hardware sales.  It's pretty simple really.

It's for the fiscal year. I believe next year will be bigger even though they lowered both their forecasted software and hardware sales. I'm thinking they should have raised hardware sales and lowered software. 

Is that important?
They have increased their profits by 33% since last year.

Thank you for the response and the clarification. 

Well that much difference in a quarter or a year would be important yes but I only mentioned it because SethNintendo asked how much they made this quarter. Regardless, Congrats to Nintendo. 

All the games with over 10 million copies sold have received DLC except super mario party. The one game that needed DLC the most.

This is the best year for a console in this generation, no? amazing.

Zelda BOTW again increases its legend by surpassing the best-selling 3D Mario in sales.