Nintendo has officially announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2024 (April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024). Nintendo's sales for the fiscal year were 1,671.8 billion yen, a year-on-year increase of 4.4%; Operating profit was 528.9 billion yen, up 4.9% year-on-year. In terms of hardware sales, Switch's global sales have reached 141.32 million units as of March 31. At the same time, President Shuntaro Furukawa finally announced that the successor to the Switch will be released by March 2025.
In terms of gaming hardware, Switch sold 15.7 million units in the fiscal year, down 12.6% year-on-year. In terms of game software, sales for the fiscal year were 199.67 million copies, down 6.7% year-on-year. Among them, "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" sold 20.61 million copies, "Super Mario Bros. Marvel" sold 13.44 million copies, and the evergreen "Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Edition" sold another 8.18 million copies.
On weekdays, Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa appeared to refute rumors about the successor model of the Switch, but this time the president announced that the successor model of the Switch will be released in this fiscal year (before March 31, 2025). At the same time, Nintendo will hold a new Nintendo face-to-face meeting in June to introduce the Switch software lineup in the second half of 2024. Finally refuted the rumors that the president is going to introduce a new machine this year, but the Switch is still 13 million units away from surpassing the NDS sales, and I don't know if the Switch can become Nintendo's best-selling game console with the news of the new model being released.