Topic: Next Nintendo Direct?

The financial data is now released since Tuesday is already almost evening in Japan. There are a few interesting things:

• They included a letter explaining they would earn less this year than predicted.
• half year hardware sales = 4.72 million

Some half-year software sales:

• 2.58 million EoW (This only counts one week of September since that was the end of the fiscal year)
• 2.31 million mario Kart
• 1.94 paper mario
• 1.57 Luigi's mansion 2
• 1.26 million Switch Sports
• 1.09 ACNH
• 3 non-Nintendo games also sold 1 million +

56% of sales were digital

Lifetime sales:

Hardware:146.04 million units
Software:1,306.10 million units

@PikminMarioKirby @Jalex_64 @Magician @MrCarlos46

I don't think the top 10 overall best selling Switch games changed unless the order shuffled slightly:

Mario Kart 8 Deluxe - 64.27 million

Animal Crossing: New Horizons - 46.45 million

Super Smash Bros. Ultimate - 35.14 million

Breath of the Wild - 32.29 million

Super Mario Odyssey - 28.50 million

Pokémon Sword/Pokémon Shield - 26.44 million.

Pokémon Scarlet/Pokémon Violet - 25.69 million

Tears of the Kingdom - 21.04 million

Super Mario Party - 20.98 million

New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe - 17.77 million

@FishyS idk if 56% digital is normal, but I feel like physical is more popular for Nintendo fans so this is surprising.

Also can Super Mario Bros Wonder please take NSMBU Deluxe out of the top 10? There haven't been many updates to the sales of Wonder in a while, hopefully they release the sales numbers at the next meeting.

@PikminMarioKirby Sadly the lack of Wonder update means it has sold less than a million for the first half of the fiscal year. Which means it isn't all that much higher than the 13 million and change we saw before; perhaps 14 million but probably not close to nsmbu deluxe yet. Hopefully there will be some holiday sales for it (Are there Mario Wonder hardware bundles? I forget.).

The percentage of digital versus physical sales varies a bit by quarter/what games are released but it has slowly been creeping upward on average. Nintendo seems to be pushing it a bit with the constant advertisement for eShop vouchers.

@FishyS I think there are Mario Wonder bundles, although I'm not sure what countries they are available in. Hopefully it's a big Holiday title once again, although there are so many Mario games this year it's hard for Wonder to have the spotlight.

@PikminMarioKirby I think Legends Z-A will be the game which ends up knocking NSMBU Deluxe out of the top 10.

True! You can choose between 7 2024 games with Mario characters in them. Which is kinda insane.

@Grumblevolcano Will it sell better than Legends Arceus? Perhaps if it’s advertised also for Switch 2 backwards compatibility it will sell better?

@FishyS We got Paper Mario, Princess Peach, Mario Vs Donkey Kong, Luigi’s Mansion, Mario Party, and Mario & Luigi all this year. Even late last year had 2D Mario and Super Mario RPG. (Mario is also in Nintendo World Championships). And to think next year is Super Mario’s 40th anniversary…

Nintendo of America hasn’t posted since Sunday which is really odd. Usually they say something on Monday, right? Still nothing today so far, either.

@PikminMarioKirby Probably silent due to the election. Everything they’ll post will be drowned out by American politics.

@VoidofLight That’s possible, but I don’t see why they didn’t post anything on Monday since that wasn’t the day of election. I don’t think it would’ve hurt to make some random Fortnite or Brothership post. It’d make more sense why Nintendo would want to be more quiet today, although we did just have the investors meeting earlier.

@PikminMarioKirby I do think so because of a larger gap between mainline entries this time. In the space of 3 months with Pokemon back with Legends Arceus:

• November 2021 - Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl released
• January 2022 - Legends Arceus released
• February 2022 - Scarlet/Violet announced for release in late 2022

Legends Z-A doesn't seem to have this problem so provided the game runs fine, I think it'll do better than Legends Arceus.

@Grumblevolcano That’s actually a really good point! With Scarlet/Violet it didn’t really have a Holiday season to itself and being right after BDSP could’ve affected the sales as well.

If we are getting Z-A November 2025, that would give the game it’s own Holiday slot and have a few months to sell before a supposed February 2026 Gen 10 reveal and about a year before a supposed November 2026 Gen 10 release.

The only way I see SMBW overtaking NSMBU is if it gets DLC and a big holiday push, which seems unlikely.

@VoidofLight @PikminMarioKirby I imagine the same will be true tomorrow and, depending on election results and what happens in the U.S. as an immediate aftermath, Nintendo could stay away from posting until things calm down.

@FragRed Yeah. I feel like they’re going to hold off for about a week or two to let things cool off.

@VoidofLight Similarly I don’t think Janis going to be much different, especially early on if they fear of a repeat from 4 years ago. They’ll likely wait till a good while.

Switch 2 is confirmed to have backwards compatibility and works with NSO.

Thank God, after how far the system's library has come, it'd be a shame to reset it with the next system. Here's hoping that this means performance patches as well! As is, this is still a very, very good thing. (Granted, it would have been pretty stupid to not be included.) It also means that people don't have to hesitate getting Switch games for the holidays, only for them to not be compatible with next-gen.

@Grumblevolcano Finally confirmed!!! Let's go!!!

This was like 99% likely but it's still amazing news to have confirmed.