 Wait a second, Nintendo is crushing it? Their financial report is one of the most impressive reports I've ever seen for year 5 of a system? What? Okay, let's get into it. So last night, or I really should say early this morning, Nintendo finally did their financial meeting for the end of fiscal year of March 2021. So now we have a full year of data from Nintendo and we have a lot to dig into, game sales, harbor sales, projections, they did do a little Q&A section, it didn't really have anything too juicy in it, although hey, Nintendo did confirm they're working on new hardware, baby! Woo! But, let's get into the actual financial details. A lot of numbers, a lot of stuff, strap in, because this is going to be an interesting one. First off, their net income for the entire year, or net profit, I should say for their entire year, was $4.4 billion dollars, pretty impressive. They had $916 million dollars in net profit for the fourth quarter, I mean almost a billion, that's a lot, 84.6 million Nintendo Switches have now sold lifetime to date, a little bit under. Well, I guess that's actually a really strong fourth quarter, I don't know why I was thinking $90 million, but maybe I'm thinking that after months went to rise and stuff, which it doesn't really matter. We're in May right now, so the numbers are obviously a little bit higher, $3.55 million of those Switches were your normal dockable Switch, $1.18 million was Switch Lite, clearly showing that the OG Switch is what people prefer, overall, 587.12 million pieces of software were sold lifetime to date, and for those wondering how Nintendo is doing in the smart device realm with Fire Emblem, Heroes, and Mario Kart 2 and all that, well, a lot lower, only $137,000 USD being made there. So it is what it is. All the numbers I listed here in terms of money value were all in USD, I already did all the yen conversions for you guys. Alright, so here's game sale updates, in total they had 22 games in the last year published by Nintendo sell over 1 million copies, which I think is actually a record for Nintendo. I was going back even to the DS days, I don't think Nintendo had 22 million in one year sell 1 million units at least. So let's get into it, I'm just going in the order it was listed in Nintendo's report, this is not necessarily the order of what's the best selling, we will do a top 10 sales at the end of this report, but let's go through all 22 million sellers in the last year. So Super Mario Maker 2 sold 1.67 million in the last year, it's at 7.15 million lifetime to date, Paper Mario the Origami King sold 3.12 million this year, it came out this last year, notably it is now the second best selling Paper Mario game of all time, it's about 1 million units behind Super Paper Mario on Wii, so there's time to see if it'll pass that. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, this is really impressive, sold 10.62 million over the last year. Think about that, that's a Wii U game, it's at 35.39 million lifetime to date, just keeps going, it's crossing 40, might hit 50 if they decide not to do Mario Kart 9, which with these strong of sales, breath of the wild by the way. 4.86 million over the last year, for 22.28 million, wouldn't know how impressive that is for a Zelda game, that would actually on its own rank it end the top 10 selling Zelda games of all time, just in the last fiscal year. Yeah, breath of the wild is killing it, just wait for breath of the wild to. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe sold 3.84 million in the last year, it is now a 10 million seller on Switch, it's lifetime to date, total is at 10.44 million, Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition sold 1.52 million, it is now the second best selling Xenoblade game yet, it's about 500k behind Xenoblade Chronicles 2, but it did outsell the original release back on Wii. Ring Fit Adventure, here's another big one, 7.38 million units sold over the last year. Wow, it's now a 10 million seller as well at 10.11 million lifetime to date. Super Mario Party sold 4.69 million over the last year, remember some people were like why were they doing those Mario Party updates, that's why, 4.69 million over the last year. It is now at 14.79 million, almost 15 million, you want to know why they're still updating that game? Yeah, there's still a lot of people playing Super Mario Party. Pokemon Sword and Shield sold 3.73 million over the last year, that puts lifetime to date total at 21.1 million lifetime to date. Super Smash Bros Ultimate has sold 5.01 million over the last year, so now that is at 23.84 million lifetime to date. Luigi's Mansion 3, oh Luigi, baby, 3.26 million over the last year. Now at 9.59 million, clearly about to become a 10 million plus seller. Congrats to Luigi's Mansion, I'm finally glad that franchise is getting the love that Luigi deserves. No more Luigi desters over here. 51 Worldwide Games, that was a brand new release this past year, sold 3.14 million, just a casual 3.14 million. Splatoon 2 is still selling 2.08 million over the last year at 12.21 million LTD. Pikmin 3 Deluxe sold 2.04 million, and yeah, by 400,000 units, it is now the best selling Pikmin game of all time. Just put that in perspective. Don't know that 2 million is really that big a deal to Nintendo, but hey, if Pikmin 4 is just kinda sitting there somewhere, it might be time to release it. Alright, 3D All-Star, Super Mario 3D All-Stars, it's final sales tally, total is 9.01 million. I mean, could it cross 10 million? Sure, if they didn't take it off the market. So 9.01 million, that's the final sales tally for that. And the reason is because these are unit shipped, so it doesn't really matter if there's still some on the store shelf somewhere. The sales numbers for Nintendo's purposes cannot go any higher, unless they bring it back. Alright, moving on, Super Mario Odyssey sold another 3.73 million over the last year. That is officially a 20 million seller at 20.83 million lifetime today. Animal Crossing New Horizons was the best selling game over the past year, not a surprise though, because it came out at the end of the prior fiscal year. It sold 20.85 million units over the last year, it is at 32.63 million lifetime today. Age of Calamity sold 3.07 million now. This is notable that Nintendo does not publish Age of Calamity in all territories as an example in Japan where I think it sold over a million units. That is published by Koei Tecmo, so Nintendo does not include data for territories where they're not publishing. Age of Calamity has actually sold at least 4 million, if not 5. We'd have to go through Koei Tecmo, their financials, and try to get everything added up. But for Nintendo's purposes, for the territories where they're published, such as the United States, 3.07 million. Let's go Pikachu and Eevee sold 1.3 million over the last year, bringing that total up to 13.28 million lifetime today. Mario Kart Live Holme Circuit sold 1.27 million units, and I have heard through the grapevine that Nintendo has future carts coming out, so they're going to keep expanding it. Peach as an example is one such cart that is in the works for another Mario Kart Live release later, so they're not giving up on it. Super Mario 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury with only like 2 months of data is at 5.59 million units. That's really good. It's going to probably outsell the Wii U version by a lot. That's really good. Oh and by the way, not to be forgotten, Link's Awakening with a strong last year selling 1.11 million units, bringing lifetime today totals up to 5.49 million. What's interesting about that 5.49 million, that means Link's Awakening has officially outsold the original Game Boy release and the DX version release. It is now the best selling version of that game. It's technically now like the best selling top down handheld Zelda, but then it's not handheld. It's also on home console. Anyways, whatever, Link's Awakening sold really, really well for what it is. Alright, here's the top 10 sellers in order from most to, well least, I mean these are the top 10 sellers on Switch. Is there really a least? We got Mario Kart 8 Deluxe at the top still at 35.39 million, I guess I should say. Animal Crossing New Horizons is at number 2 at 32.63 million, which interestingly in here is the gap in quarter 3 to the end of fiscal year grew. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is clearly not going to be losing its crown to Animal Crossing. So anyone that thought that Animal Crossing New Horizons will pass Mario Kart, I don't actually think that's going to happen unless Mario Kart 9 comes out, because then obviously I presume Mario Kart 9 would kill sales of Mario Kart 8 and then it would, you know, yeah it would be fine. But I don't think Animal Crossing New Horizons at this point is going to pass Mario Kart. Super Smash Bros Ultimate is at number 3 at 23.84 million. And at number 4, Breath of the Wild Baby, 22.28. We have Pokemon Sword and Shield rounding out the top 5 at 21.1. Just missing out on the top 5 is Super Mario Odyssey at 28.83 million. We have Super Mario Party at 14.79 million. Then we have Pokemon Let's Go Pikachu, Let's Go Eevee at 13.28 million. At number 9 we have Splatoon 2 at 12.21 million. Then New Super Mario Bros. You Deluxe at 10.44. That number 10 spot keeps rotating between different games. So that is the current number 10, the current top 10. Now we have some New Year guidance along with some scant comparisons to other platforms including PlayStation. So Nintendo's New Year guidance, they are projecting out 25.5 million expected switch sales over the next fiscal year. Notably at the same time last year they were projecting 19 million. They ended up selling 29, now they are projecting 25.5. Some investor did ask them why is the projection a little bit lower than what you actually sold in the last fiscal year. And that's because Nintendo says hey we're trying to play coy with this, we're playing close to the vest because we know we can make 25.5 million switches in the next year. We aren't sure what's going to happen at manufacturing that might prevent us from making more. So Nintendo is essentially saying hey if we can make more than 25.5 million we will. They pretty much think they're going to sell out of every unit they make in the next year is what Nintendo is projecting. 25.5 million, that's a massive projection for how deep into the switch cycle we are. And you'll see how massive that projection is in a moment. Research and development spending has increased yet again. Nintendo initially told investors that this is just for software and outsourcing. Then immediately after saying oh that's all the research and development is for. Nintendo straight up responds to a question in the QA section saying that they are investing in their next platform right now where they want to continue their software such hardware integration. This is actually the very first time Nintendo has self admitted that they are developing a new platform. Now is this the pro is this next gen don't know but Nintendo has said they're always making hardware but now they're specifically saying we are deep in development. So yeah take that for what it is. This is probably because Nintendo has finally admitted where they are in the switch life cycle. Shantara Furukawa has confirmed that as of today they firmly believe Nintendo's switch is officially at the midway point in its life. That means they see another four years maybe five for switch moving forward. So midway point time to worry about next gen development things are happening at Nintendo. Alright now to directly compare to Sony's game division because for some reason that's what people are doing. Nintendo is boasting overall net profits that are more than a third more of what Sony has posted over the last year for what it's worth. Sony sells more expensive systems. Sony had a bunch of major releases. They also released PlayStation 5 doesn't really matter. It is what it is. You want to know why it doesn't matter despite the PlayStation 5 being newer than Nintendo Switch outsold the PlayStation 5 this last fiscal quarter. Now again supply constraints really on both ends. So it is what it is. Switch is going to continue to outsell PlayStation 5 for a bit. We'll see how long that continues because PlayStation 5 demand is obviously massive. Here's a chart. This chart is comparing shipments of Wii, PlayStation 4, Nintendo DS, GBA. This is over a course of a number of years and you can see that Switch is just playing its own game. You can see the bell curve, that massive bell curve for things like Nintendo DS which is the only thing to ship more units in its fourth year on the market than the Switch. But Switch is still like, literally look at it, it's just going up and up and up. It doesn't, I don't think Switch is peaked. The only way it will have peaked is because Nintendo can't physically make enough hardware. But yeah, that is, yeah, wow. That's the end of what I got for Nintendo's financials. So what I want to know now that you know all of these numbers, took a long time to get through them all, is what are your thoughts on Nintendo's fiscal year? What are you looking forward to in the future fiscal year? You know the current fiscal year, what do you think are going to be the massive sellers for Nintendo's fiscal year? Again, we don't actually know much once we get past July. There is a smattering of titles we know are coming to Switch over all this summer, but from Nintendo's side of things, we only know about all the way up to Skyward Sword HD. It does appear that Nintendo is going a bit more family or casual focus to start the year, and typically when Nintendo does that, they end the year going after the enthusiast market. So, we'll see what happens.