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