Nintendo has released its financial figures for the second quarter of the fiscal year, and they give us some interesting insights into how the company's games and hardware are doing as Switch 2 speculation ramps up.
According to Nintendo's financial report, net sales are down 34.3% this quarter compared to the same period last year, while operating profit is down a whopping 56.6%. In general, Nintendo's numbers aren't looking too great this quarter, but there's arguably a good reason for that.
Last year, Nintendo was riding high on the release of a new tentpole Zelda game in Tears of the Kingdom, which was a phenomenal sales success for the company. We're also getting closer to news of the Switch 2, and so many gamers are probably being cautious with regards to buying new hardware.
It could be argued that a new Zelda game was also released within the operating period for this report, which ends on September 30th, but Echoes of Wisdom isn't on the same budget and marketing scale as Tears of the Kingdom was.
Even still, Echoes of Wisdom did pretty well for Nintendo, it seems. The financial report confirms that the game had sold 2.58 million units by...
