Nintendo Has Shipped 7.63 Million Switch Units as of September 2017

<p>Monday morning&comma; Nintendo posted their second quarter earnings with things going pretty well for the Japanese company&period; The sales of the Switch continued to grow&comma; as did sales for the games on the system&comma; and the 3DS continues to do well for them&period; Even mobile sales had a year on year increase for Nintendo&comma; however the actual amount attributes to a tiny portion of their total profits&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"u6oPBIVjf8E" title&equals;"Super Mario Odyssey Trailer - Nintendo Switch"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;u6oPBIVjf8E"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;u6oPBIVjf8E&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"Super Mario Odyssey Trailer - Nintendo Switch"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Nintendo Switch as of September 30th has sold 7&period;63 million units&comma; and Nintendo is increasing their sales forecast to selling 14 million Switches in the fiscal year&comma; which is a sizeable bump up from original target of 10 million consoles&period; So far&comma; 27&period;48 million software titles have been sold for the Switch&comma; and that will also increase the forecast from 35 million titles to 50 million titles&period; It should also be noted that during this time Nintendo struggled to meet up with demand&comma; so if they had more consoles made&comma; more would have likely been sold&period; Some of the standout numbers for software titles are <em>Legend of Zelda&colon; Breath of the Wild<&sol;em> with 4&period;7 million copies sold&comma; <em>Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<&sol;em> with 4&period;42 million and <em>Splatoon 2<&sol;em> with 3&period;61 million copies sold&period; One of the more disappointing numbers however is for <em>ARMS<&sol;em>&period; While it had sold around 1&period;2 million as of July&comma; it flatlined out basically by the end of September at 1&period;32 million units&period; While those are good numbers for a new IP&comma; hopefully Nintendo can continue to support the game and build that IP up a bit more&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;131077" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-131077" style&equals;"width&colon; 1000px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-large wp-image-131077" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;10&sol;30100130&sol;splatoon-2-1024x576&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-131077" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Splatoon 2&comma; Nintendo<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The other bits of news that come out of their financials are equally as good for Nintendo&period; The 3DS sales were at 2&period;86 million for the quarter&comma; which puts the portable system at 68&period;98 million units sold over its lifetime&period; <em>Super Mario Run <&sol;em>and<em> Fire Emblem Heroes<&sol;em> were the two most notable performers for Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s mobile side of things&comma; with income up 426&percnt; year on year&period; Those numbers will more than likely increase once Nintendo releases <em>Animal Crossing Pocket Camp<&sol;em> through the rest of this calendar year&period; All in all&comma; things are really looking up for Nintendo&comma; with profits all across the board&comma; and which is up compared to the same time last year due to the phasing out of the Wii U&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nintendo has taken a chance on the hybrid Switch&comma; and so far it seems to be paying off&period; What should be noted is that in their first year sales&comma; the PlayStation 4 had sold 14 million units and the Xbox One had sold 10 million&period; If Nintendo does meet their projections&comma; that will put them just ahead of Sony and Microsoft&&num;8217&semi;s systems in the first year of sales&period; With <em>Mario Odyssey<&sol;em> having just released&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s looking like it will be a good holiday for Nintendo and they will more than likely reach their targets&period; Do you have a Switch or are planning on getting one&quest; Let us know what you think about Nintendo&&num;8217&semi;s successes in the comments below&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Source&colon; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nintendo&period;co&period;jp&sol;ir&sol;pdf&sol;2017&sol;171030e&period;pdf">Nintendo of Japan<&sol;a><&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;