Nintendo offered 23.06 million Change consoles — Nintendo Change, Change OLED and Change Lite fashions — from April 2021 via March 2022, the online game big reported Tuesday. The corporate’s general gross sales numbers in the course of the fiscal yr, which ended March 31, had been pushed largely by gross sales of Pokémon Good Diamond and Pokémon Shining Pearl reaching a mixed 14.65 million models and Pokémon Legends: Arceus hitting 12.64 million models.
Older titles, together with Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (9.94 million models) and Animal Crossing: New Horizons (6.01 million models), additionally continued to contribute considerably to Nintendo’s gross sales numbers.
Nevertheless, Change console gross sales had been down 20% yr over yr, in accordance with Nintendo This was partly as a result of recognition of the March 2020 launch of Animal Crossing: New Horizons driving {hardware} gross sales the earlier fiscal yr, and partly resulting from semiconductor and different part shortages this previous fiscal yr. Software program gross sales, then again, grew 1.8% yr over yr to 235.07 million models, which accounted for the very best annual software program gross sales determine ever posted for a Nintendo platform, the corporate mentioned.
Nintendo’s internet gross sales for the fiscal yr got here in at 1.69 trillion Yen (~ $12.97 billion), down 3.6% from the previous yr.
