Nintendo has blamed part shortages for an extra slowing of Swap {hardware} gross sales, which have impacted the corporate’s total gross sales and revenue for the previous monetary quarter.
It is not all unhealthy information, nevertheless. Swap recreation gross sales stay brisk, with extra video games bought to customers year-on-year and a stable begin for Nintendo Swap Sports activities (which has now notched up 4.84m copies).
Nintendo highlighted a number of different first-party video games to have bought properly over the previous three months: Mario Strikers Battle League shifted 1.91m copies, whereas Kirby and the Forgotten Land bought one other 1.88m, taking it to a complete of 4.53m and making it the best-selling Kirby recreation ever.
The evergreen Mario Kart 8 Deluxe bought one other 1.48m, as much as a surprising 46.82m so far, whereas Animal Crossing: New Horizons is on 39.38m.
Mixed gross sales of all Nintendo Swap {hardware} fashions now stand at 111.08m items, simply 7m in need of Recreation Boy. By comparability, that is additionally 10m greater than Wii, and 97m greater than Wii U.
Total demand for Swap “stays secure in all areas”, Nintendo stated.
There is no change to Nintendo’s admittedly slightly conservative estimates for Nintendo Swap gross sales over the remainder of the monetary yr, which can see the launch of video games equivalent to Bayonetta 3, Splatoon 3, Mario Rabbids 2, plus Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.
Earlier this week, Sony introduced its personal spherical of monetary outcomes. PlayStation 5 gross sales have been flat, whereas recreation gross sales fell year-on-year.
