Nintendo made public the figures obtained between April and June 2022, where Switch and its video games appear. All the details, here!
A new fiscal report has arrived. Through an official report, Nintendo published the figures obtained between April and June 2022 and, from these numbers, we can deduce two facts: Nintendo Switch suffered a setback due to the lack of semiconductors and kirby Live your best moment.
Initially, the Japanese company pocketed a total of 118.9 billion yen (886,263,202 million dollars according to converters on-line) in net benefits, an amount that exceeds by one 28.3% to the figures obtained in 2021 (92.7 billion yen), during the same time of year.
In turn, the net sales were reduced by 4.7% where, if we see in detail each part that makes up this section, the platform-dedicated deliveries they lowered a 4.3% (of US$2,303 million a 2,204 mill), the products mobile and their respective IP suffered a fall 16.8% but, not all of them are bad, since the card games increased their earnings by 56.9% (of 3,727,384 a 5,964,528both in dollars).
As a curiosity, America is positioned as the region that invested the most in Nintendoby representing a 43.8% of sales, while the second place corresponds to Europewith a 26.1%, followed by Japan with a 20.1% and finally a 10% which is represented as others within the report.
Now, let’s review the data. switch. The main console Nintendo confirmed that they have already sold a total of close to 111 million devicesHowever, the figures for 2022 are smaller than those of 2021. With a total of 3,430,000 million consoles sold by the end of Junethe percentage fell 22.9% If we compare them with 4,450,000 that shipped last year.
For its part, Nintendo defends itself by highlighting the problem with the semiconductors that there was, due to the scarcity of these, which are a fundamental part of any state-of-the-art device. Then, in the section dedicated to video game were Nintendo Switch Sports, Mario Strikers, Kirby and the Forgetten Land and Mario Kart 8 the pillars for the Japanese, although they could not sustain the figures of 2021when falling a 8.6% (45,290,000 units in 2021, 41,410,000 in 2022).
Within all this sea of numbers and percentages we find a space to highlight kirby. The adorable pink being with infinite appetite broke its own record as a franchise with The Forgotten Landwho recorded more than 4 million units sold in its first 15 weeksfigures that their titles launched in 2014 and 2018, along with their predecessors, never reached.
Undoubtedly, the effects of both the pandemic and the economic ups and downs in the world as a result of the war in Europe, directly hit the video game industry, one of the great beneficiaries of isolation. Your colleague company in the field, Sony, estimates lows in their future figures, while the owners of mario bros they retain some hope in their forecasts. From your point of view, what do you think is the reason for this situation experienced by companies in the gaming?