 Hey, everyone, welcome back to Nintendo Prime. Today, we are to bring you all of Nintendo's sales updates. They're a big financial meeting. We got the total lifetime sale update for the Nintendo Switch itself, launch sales for Pokemon Legends Arceus, and so much more. Now, before I get into this, I want to remind you, we do have a giveaway going on right now for two copies of Mario Strikers' Battle League. This giveaway is for our kickoff event for Prime Gaming Fest on June 9th at 9 a.m. That is when the winners will be announced. If you want to enter to win one of two copies, so two different winners for this game, all you gotta do is head down and click on the link in the description or the pinned comment. I wish all of you guys luck. And if this is the first time you've ever seen a Nintendo Prime video, I would appreciate if you would subscribe. Now, let's just get right into the data because we have so much to get into. First up, the Nintendo Switch has shipped 107.65 million units as of March 31st, 2022. This is actually 4.11 million units shipped for the final quarter of their fiscal year. This is really, really good and really impressive sales in general. I am very, very happy with these sales, of course, and I'm sure Nintendo is as well. As you'll see later, they ended up selling, ah, where is it right here? They ended up selling 23.06 million units for the year, which is slightly ahead of their last projection of just 23 million. Now, we have all the updated software sales listed right here and I'm really, really, this is just awesome. So Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has sold now 45 million. That is a 1.98 million increase for the quarter. Animal Crossing New Horizons has sold 38.64 million, a 1.02 million increase for the quarter. Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has now sold 28.17 million, which is 770,000 plus units for the quarter. Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild has now sold 26.55 million. That is 750,000 unit increase for the quarter. Pokemon Sword and Shield has now sold 24.27 million, a 370,000 unit increase for the quarter. Super Mario Odyssey is now at 23.5 million, a 480,000 increase for the quarter. Super Mario Party is now at 17.78 million. That's a 390,000 unit increase for the quarter. Pokemon Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl are now at 14.65 million units. That is 680,000 units for the quarter. Pokemon Let's Go. So this would be the, you know, let's go Pokemon, or let's go Pikachu and Eevee are now at 14.53 million. That's a 200,000 unit increase for the quarter. Rig Fit Adventure is at 14.09 million units. That's a 560,000 unit increase for the quarter. New Super Mario Bros. New Deluxe is at 13.31 million. That's a 590,000 unit increase for the quarter. Splatoon 2 is at 13.30 million units. That's a 620,000 increase since September of 2021 because we didn't have, we didn't really get unit updates for this before in the last quarter. So Pokemon Legends Arceus debuted at 12.64 million units. Luigi's Mansion 3 is at 11.43 million units. That's all 390,000 in the last quarter. Super Mario 3D World Plus Bowser's Fury is at 9.43 million units. That's an increase of 580,000 units in the last quarter. Mario Party Superstars is at 6.88 million. That is a 1.45 million increase for the quarter. Clubhouse Games 51, Worldwide Classics is at 4.22 million and they just give us a general update of 1.08 million since the March of 2021. They didn't give us any updates on it before. So, hey look, there you go. Metroid actually crossed a million for the year. The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword HD is at 3.91 million units. That is a 60K increase for the quarter. Metroid Dread is at 2.90 million units. That is 160,000 unit increase. Still hasn't crossed 3 million. Come on Metroid Dread. I know we could do it guys. Let's get it across 3 million. That would be amazing. Next up Kirby and the Forgotten Land at 2.65 million. That's the full launch sales. Remember that launched right at the end of the quarter. New Pokemon Snap is at 2.40 million. That's a 40,000 increase although it doesn't have Japan sales because it wasn't published by Nintendo in Japan. Mario Golf Super Rush is at 2.35 million. That had a 90K increase for the quarter. Metopia is at 1.68 million with a 50,000 unit increase for the quarter. Big Brain Academy Brain vs Brain is at 1.59 million with a 310,000 unit increase for the quarter. Warrior Wear get it together is at 1.27 million with a 30,000 unit increase for the quarter. And Game Builder Garage is at 1.06 million with a 50,000 unit increase. Remember Nintendo does not really report on anything other than their million sellers. So if they have any other IP on Switch that hasn't sold a million units it won't be listed by Nintendo officially. So next up I wanted to focus on this Nintendo has listed an updated on its 2022 releases for Bayonetta 3. And you're seeing here that, hey, look, Bayonetta 3 is still coming out this year. Some of you guys might be wondering where are the rest of Nintendo's games? How come I don't see Mario Plus Rabbids sparks of hope on this list? Well, because Nintendo doesn't make that game that's Ubisoft. It won't actually appear on Nintendo's list in the first place. So you can still see that they're pretty rock solid here on these games with July 29th with Xenoblade 3, September 9th for Splatoon 3, obviously late 2022 for Pokemon Scarlet Violet and Bayonetta 3 is still listed for this year. This is pretty good news that Bayonetta 3 is still listed. This should quell any worries that Nintendo still does not have Bayonetta 3 in the plans. It's just a matter of what month that they want to drop Bayonetta 3. So good, good, good, good, good news for all of us. Obviously though, you look at this and you go, I think I have a little bit something after September besides just these two games, right? Well, I guess that's what a potential direct next month could be for. Next up, John Cartwright noted something really, really interesting here about the Nintendo Switch. There aren't more Switch consoles than there are Wii U games. So 107.65 million hardware here, only 130.48 million pieces of software were ever sold for Wii U. That is astonishing to see, like it's hard for me to even fathom that this is possible despite the Wii U not being a big success, but hot, damn. Now obviously, if Switch software ever hits a billion that will be really impressive as well. Now I wanted to show this next one because Nintendo wasn't the only one dropping their financials tonight. Sony was as well. So PlayStation quarter four results, so their final results for the year, they sold two million PlayStation 5s in the fourth quarter. Lifetime to date PlayStation 5s sold are at 19.3 million. They sold by the way around 11 million PlayStation 5s in the last fiscal year that, they're very, very, very, very heavily supply constrained, I would presume, because 11 million is probably not what Sony is hoping to sell, especially when you have Nintendo Switch authors selling 23 million in that same span. Anyway, they're at 47.4 million PlayStation Plus subs, which is actually down year over year. Digital software ratio is 71% of all sales are digital. 70.5 million PlayStation software with 14.5 million first party software this quarter. Sony doesn't give us the same exact details on a game by game basis as Nintendo does. So this is kind of what we're stuck with here for our knowledge base on that. So what do we really learn here? We learned that Nintendo is still killing it, that they still expect to sell 21 million units this fiscal year, which is absolutely insane. And Band Out of Three is still coming. Metroid Dreads, to me I'm a little bit disappointed Metroid Dread didn't hit three million. It's not really showing a strong tail of sales at this point. I do think by the end of this year, it probably will hit three million. But obviously some of us had some hopes that maybe it could push the four or five. It kind of looks like Metroid Dread doesn't have that evergreen effect that other Nintendo games have. That is what it is. You know, it always was kind of wishful thinking that Metroid Dread, even though being an amazing game, could have an evergreen effect because Metroid has never been an evergreen franchise for Nintendo. So maybe that's actually a candidate for a price drop at some point this year. I don't know, maybe it's just a hint, hint Nintendo. That might be the game that needs a price drop to continue to push sales. But you know what? I'm actually really, really thrilled overall with these results. I think Nintendo had a very, very strong showing. The fact that they sold more Nintendo Switch units than their last projection stated just by a little bit. Now it was only about 60,000 units more than they projected, but still that is more than they projected. And the fact that they're still projecting to sell another 21 million is insane because that means by the end of this next fiscal year, it should be right around 128 million units sold, which is pretty impressive. Now this presumes they don't end up having to shift their projections down. Nintendo obviously has been able to secure much more manufacturing than Sony. That much is clear. The fact that Sony could only sell 11 million PlayStation 5s in the same span that Nintendo Switch is more than double that. And we know Microsoft who doesn't obviously do their quarters based on the Japanese calendar. Microsoft has been ramping up Xbox production like crazy. They have thrown money after money, after money the problem. I've heard hundreds of millions of dollars thrown at the manufacturing issue to the point that they are flooding the market with Xbox series right now, trying to take advantage of the fact that Sony is unable to secure enough manufacturing to actually keep up with demand, let alone keep up with Nintendo. And now they're struggling to keep up with Xbox as well. Xbox is actually rapidly catching up to PlayStation 5 sales because of it. So kudos to Microsoft for kind of trying to take advantage of the fact that Sony is really struggling here. Because yes, we all know there's a lot of chip shortages in this and that, but a lot of it just comes down to what is the manufacturing that you can secure? And Nintendo is able to secure more than 20 million units being made per year. Something Sony is unable to do for whatever reason. And now Microsoft is taking advantage of that, throwing money at the problem and actually securing more manufacturing than Sony can at the moment as well. So very, very interesting to see that Nintendo, the current market leader, is having no problem maintaining the unit production momentum. And obviously Microsoft is throwing money at the problem to make sure that they are now coming ahead of PlayStation as well. It's gonna be interesting to see how Sony responds this upcoming fiscal year because clearly they can't sit there and let Nintendo and Microsoft gobble up all of the manufacturing lines and all of the chips and all, basically taking up all the factory space because that's just gonna keep pushing PlayStation 5 into this weird position where Sony is kind of like Valve's Steam Deck. Just lots of demand, but can't actually come close to making enough units. I'm very curious on this battle for manufacturing and the battle with the markets. Like basically Nintendo has all the lines they do because they threw a lot of money at it. Microsoft is now getting all the lines they are in manufacturing because they also threw a lot of money at it. Both of those companies are throwing the weight of their pocketbooks to keep these unit productions up, even though it might hurt the overall profit margins, although Nintendo's profits were obviously yet another record profit year for Nintendo, so they're not hurting. Nintendo is also the richest company in Japan and can afford to throw more money at the problem, maybe even then Sony can, so I don't know. It's gonna be very interesting. Obviously we have new factories opening up in 2023 that could solve some of this. It won't solve all of it until about 2025, I think, is when all of the new factories will be opened by 2025 and then at that point, there shouldn't really be any problems, but 2025 is a hell of a long ways away. So if Microsoft and Nintendo gobble up all of the new manufacturing at the new plants next year and Sony is still struggling, it'll be very interesting what's going to happen here. By the way, I don't think this is necessarily a good thing. I want all the companies to not have any problems at manufacturing, but this is cool. I'm really happy. These are really big numbers and I think as Nintendo fans, we should all be very, very happy. So thank you guys so much for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.