Topic: Nintendo Announces Results For Second Quarter Of 2025-26 Fiscal Year

[Shaymin]

Or "the first full Switch 2 quarter". Let's see how that worked for them.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73144/nintendo-announces-results-for-second-quarter-of-2025-26-fiscal-year

Nintendo has released their financial results including the July - September calendar quarter and after having to revise results down last year, are going the opposite way now that Switch 2 is out.

All monetary figures quoted in yen, with a comparison based on current market rate of US$1 = ¥153.478 provided for clarification only.

Financial Indicators

Revenue: ¥527.202bn (approximately $3.435bn), up 90.56% from same quarter last year

Operating income: ¥88.253bn (~$575m), up 31.71%

Ordinary income: ¥140.218bn (~$913m), up 316.93%

Digital sales: ¥85.7bn (~$558.3m). up 8.21%

Mobile and IP revenue: ¥16.6bn (~$108.16m), up 0.61%

Hardware Shipments

Switch 2's second quarter saw a total of 4.74m shipments, for a new lifetime total of 10.36m units. The Switch 2 will likely pass the Wii U this month.

The original Switch shipped 920,000 units (390k OLED, 330k standard, 200k Lite), and has a life to date of 154.01m units: it has undoubtedly become the best-selling dedicated game hardware in Nintendo history after the DS.

New Software

Donkey Kong Bananza opened to shipments of 3.49m units in its first roughly two and a half months. Sales for the Nintendo Switch 2 edition titles were not broken out (though Super Mario Party Jamboree was reported as having shipped 1.16m units in six months, most likely based on its Switch 2 edition). No details were broken out for Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star Crossed Worlds or Drag x Drive.

Catalogue Sales

Mario Kart World is continuing the trend of ridiculous attach rates for Mario Kart games, shipping 3.94m copies in the quarter and has a new lifetime total of 9.57m units (a roughly 92.37% attach rate). Meanwhile, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe shipped another 700k copies in the quarter for a very nice lifetime total of 69.56m.

The Switch top 10 can be found here, where it appears Super Mario Odyssey will be the fifth 30+m seller on Switch after the next financial results.

Other Announcements

As mentioned, Nintendo has revised their estimates upward for financial indicators (revenue up 18.4%, operating profit 15.6%, ordinary profit 21.1%), and for Switch 2 sales from 15m systems to 19m. Switch expectations were correspondingly lowered to 4m from 4.5m.

[Lemonade]

RIP DS

[Luigi Dude]

It took the Wii and Switch about 9 months to sell 10 million copies and both were treated as a huge accomplishment at the time for doing it so quickly.  The Switch 2 just did that in around half the time.  Nintendo's own forecast now has the system doing 19 million by the end of March which will not only put it well over the Wii U, but very close to the GameCube's lifetime total, all within it's first 9 months.

Oh and LOL at all the people that said Mario Kart World is not a killer app.  Yeah the sequel to a game that sold close to 70 million units is something nobody wants to play alright.

Once again this just goes to show how much of a bubble the online gamer sphere truly is.  All the negativity and outrage that has been manufactured for clicks, that many gobble up and repost all over the web, even when said information has been proven false, has no impact on the real world whatsoever.  Majority of the people who play videogames, want to do just that, play the games.  If you grew up playing Mario Kart and Donkey Kong, and still enjoy those games, and want to play the newest installments, you're going to buy a Switch 2 to continue playing said games since you can't play them anywhere else.