Nintendo’s future couldn’t be brighter. Despite an aging console, the Japanese financial results are flamboyant with a record net profit for the last half-year. Besides The Legend of Zelda: Tears of The Kingdomanother video game title from 2023 brings joy to society: Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder carries the Nintendo Switch
With the announcement of its fiscal first half results, Nintendo shared the performance of Super Mario Bros. Wonderits latest big title on Nintendo Switch.
Unsurprisingly, the game had an exceptional launch with 4.3 million copies sold in just two weeks. Nintendo highlights that this is the best performance of all Super Mario. It must be said that the user base is huge today with more than 130 million Nintendo Switches.
The cardboard of Super Mario Bros. the film has undoubtedly revived interest in the license. For information, Nintendo’s figures for its derivative products experienced a real boom during this semester thanks to this film production (+133% compared to the same period in 2022). Furthermore, the development of a Zelda film has just been made official.
In addition to this impressive success of Super Mario Bros. WonderNintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa spoke about his hybrid console: “The Switch will enter its eighth year starting in March 2024, but we will continue to develop new titles without being bound by the life cycles of previous platforms”.
This promises a few more years of big Nintendo video games on the Switch, like Mario vs. Donkey Kong, Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD or Super Princes Peach.
A Switch 2 dependent on Nintendo game sales
The arrival of the Switch 2 should therefore not annihilate the first generation, and everything suggests that 2024 will be the chosen year, alongside the gradual decline in sales of Nintendo’s hybrid console.
According to Atul Goyal, analyst at Jefferies, the launch of this successor will depend on “Nintendo’s hardware and software sales strength”, relays Reuters. The latter evokes a launch window for March (thus imitating the first Switch) or October (perfect for the end-of-year holidays).