Nintendo has this week shared its most recent financial results, in the process giving us some more up-to-date sales figures for the company's numerous titles and platforms. Of course, if you want all the details you'll find them in the report, but we've collected together the most noteworthy points for your convenience below.
As of March 31, Nintendo had sold 16.95 million Switch consoles during the previous fiscal year (not quite the 20 million it was aiming for), bringing the grand total up to 34.74 million. The company also hopes to sell 18 million units over the next twelve months.
Rumour has it that Nintendo is preparing to release new versions of the Switch in June, although the company did mention in the report that there is no plan to announce anything like that at E3. It looks like we'll just have to wait and see.
In other hardware news, the 3DS enjoyed more modest success (2.55 million for the year, 75.08 million all told), while the NES Classic Edition and Super NES Classic Edition shifted 5.95 million units between them.
Now let's talk about the games. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is now the best-selling Switch game with its total sales of 16.69 million, overtaking Super Mario Odyssey with its 14.44 million sold. In third, rather impressively, sits Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, which despite only launching in December, managed to shift 13.81 million copies. Finally, Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu and Eevee sold 10.63 million copies between them last year.
Naturally, digital and physical Switch software sales are up, with the console's growing user-base naturally buying more games, and digital sales were particularly impressive as they raised just over $1 billion USD and represent a 95.4% year-on-year increase.