Nintendo stays depending on its console enterprise even because it has opened shops and its roster of characters characteristic in theme parks and movie.
“While we expect gross sales of {hardware} and software program are stable for the eighth 12 months, we didn’t obtain our plan,” Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa instructed an earnings briefing.
Nintendo bought 9.54 million Switch models within the April-December interval, bringing lifetime gross sales to 150.86 million models.
Last month Nintendo stated it is going to launch a successor to the hit home-portable Switch console this 12 months with a Nintendo Direct occasion to air on April 2.
The Switch 2 seems to intently observe the design of its predecessor, which reworked Nintendo’s fortunes after the underperformance of the Wii U.
The firm lowered its working revenue forecast by 22.2 p.c to JPY 280 billion ($1.8 billion or roughly Rs. 15,678 crore) for the monetary 12 months ending March.
In the April-December interval, revenue fell 46.7 p.c to JPY 247.6 billion (roughly Rs. 13,882 crore).Â
© Thomson Reuters 2025
(This story has not been edited by NDTV workers and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
