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Nintendo FY17/Q1 results (numbers for previous year in brackets)

Sales: JPY 154,069m (JPY 61,969m)
Profit: JPY 21,795m (JPY -24,530m)

Download sales: JPY11,000m (JPY7,800m)


Sales per platform/segment:

amiibo & smart devices:
- fewer amiibo released than in the year before
- sales: 1.60m for figure-type and 1.30m for card-type
- smart device and IP related income was 9.0 billion yen (450% increase on a year-on-year basis).


Software shipments:
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 3.54m
ARMS - 1.18m
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 1.16m (3.92m LTD)
Switch software sales this quarter - 8.14m (three titles above represent 72.2% of all sales)


Hardware shipments:
- Switch: 1.97m (4.7m LTD)
- 3DS: 0.95m (67.08m LTD)

Source: Nintendo IR

 

[Eolz]

So...
It prints money all over again?

 

[vareon]

Dat smart device jump.

 

[Sandfox]

Dat smart device jump.

Now imagine when the AC and Zelda games hit.

 

[Madao]

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe almost at half of what the original did in 2 months. whoa.

 

[Falchion]

I can't believe the Mario Kart re-release is so close to Zelda.

 

[airmangataosenai]

I asked before but didnt get a real answer: what is going on with Switch stock? Why are they shipping so few consoles with the brand being so popular? Shipping less than 2 million consoles in a quarter is kind of shocking for such a popular item, there must be some sort of issue with manufacturing, right?

 

[DarkConfidant]

So...
It prints money all over again?

Can we get an updated GIF for this?

 

[Bulzeeb]

I asked before but didnt get a real answer: what is going on with Switch stock? Why are they shipping so few consoles with the brand being so popular? Shipping less than 2 million consoles in a quarter is kind of shocking for such a popular item, there must be some sort of issue with manufacturing, right?

someone else cna give you something more accurate, but I read that they are competing with apple for parts

 

[kulapik]

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe almost at half of what the original did in 2 months. whoa.

They shipped more MK8D than Switches, so...

 

[RRockman]

So...
It prints money all over again?

Can we get an updated GIF for this?

 

[Roo]

I asked before but didnt get a real answer: what is going on with Switch stock? Why are they shipping so few consoles with the brand being so popular? Shipping less than 2 million consoles in a quarter is kind of shocking for such a popular item, there must be some sort of issue with manufacturing, right?

they're having problems to stock components for the console.
NAND memory especially seems to be a big issue as Apple is also after those chips

 

[Jaagen]

I asked before but didnt get a real answer: what is going on with Switch stock? Why are they shipping so few consoles with the brand being so popular? Shipping less than 2 million consoles in a quarter is kind of shocking for such a popular item, there must be some sort of issue with manufacturing, right?

Flash memory shortage slows down the production pipeline. Toshiba, the manufacturer, can't produce enough.

 

[Zedark]

I asked before but didnt get a real answer: what is going on with Switch stock? Why are they shipping so few consoles with the brand being so popular? Shipping less than 2 million consoles in a quarter is kind of shocking for such a popular item, there must be some sort of issue with manufacturing, right?

There is an industry-wide shortages of flash storage, so many companies are competitie for these parts, and of course Apple gets all it wants by default. As a result, ramping up production is hard for Nintendo.

 

[titiklabingapat]

I asked before but didnt get a real answer: what is going on with Switch stock? Why are they shipping so few consoles with the brand being so popular? Shipping less than 2 million consoles in a quarter is kind of shocking for such a popular item, there must be some sort of issue with manufacturing, right?

Supply chain was being gobbled up by Apple manufacturing the next iPhone. It seems that Apple is done manufacturing and stockpiling so more factories are now freed up for other companies. Preliminary reports via media create thread and various stocking websites (USA) are seeing an increase in stock as a result.

Won't be surprised if they double up production to 4M units in the second quarter, and then double that again for the very important 3rd quarter. That brings them in line with the rumoured forecast of 16M units for the FY.