 Hey everyone welcome back to a special edition of prod news we have Nintendo's financial report in and that's literally all this episode about we're not talking about any other gaming news today because this is the story of the day of the evening of the yesterday of the in the middle of the night Nintendo does their thing because they are in Japan and I've got all these notes so we're gonna break this down into three stories the first one being Nintendo switch sales the actual system itself so the Nintendo switch is sold 79 let me see here 79.89 million units also in addition to that they sold 11.57 million units last quarter now last quarter encompasses essentially the entire holiday season it's October November and December now this is the highest sales quarter in switch history but it's also higher than the Nintendo Wii that's right it has outsold any quarter the Nintendo Wii has ever done in fact if this was a Nintendo DS this would be the third best selling quarter in Nintendo DS history pretty interesting there right now here's another fun fact as of the end of last quarter December 31st 2020 the switch launch aligned which means running in the exact same path as the Wii from when it launched to a very similar date the switch is officially ahead of the Nintendo Wii that's right it is on pace to outsell what the Wii sold in the same timeframe in fact it's actually likely going to outsell the Game Boy which sold 118 million units that is a lot of Nintendo switches out there whether it's switchlight whether it's OG switch you know what the deal Leo is there now we have the next story which is a whole bunch of million seller updates with Nintendo switch software and some initial thoughts on that but before I get into that hey look I know right at the time of making this video we have not announced the winner of the PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X or Nintendo Switch giveaway that will be coming later today in a live stream happening at noon CST if you're watching this after the fact and the winners already been announced and if you're curious go back and look at that however I do want to announce we have our new giveaway for the month of February starting because it is the first it is the month of love around here and to show you guys some additional love I'm gonna be giving away two copies of Super Mario 3d world plus Bowser's Fury however this time around I'm not going to wait till the end of the month to do it we are going to give the giveaway now and we're gonna end it on the 11th and announce the winner or really ended on the 10th and announce the winners on the 11th so they can actually get the game before launch what does that mean we're gonna do for the rest of the month well stay tuned because obviously we will launch a second giveaway after we finish that one to end out February as we get into Valentine's Day hence the the red shirt around here alright let me get back into some love mode here because I'm gonna look at the paper for this because we have a lot of software sales to talk about here so first up the best-selling game on Switch today is still Mario Kart 8 deluxe it sold well it's cumulative sales I guess are at 33.41 million but it is not the only 30 million seller oh you know a game we're talking about right we're talking about animal crossing new horizons it is now at 31.18 million it actually outsold it about two and a half times you know the sales of Mario Kart 8 deluxe during that same period so it's highly likely by the end of this fiscal year if not the first quarter of next fiscal year that animal crossing new horizons will probably be the best-selling switch game today now what's interesting here is if you combine sales of the Wii U original release of Mario Kart 8 and sales of Mario Kart 8 deluxe technically Mario Kart 8 on the whole is the best-selling Mario Kart game of all time think about that for a moment wow remember we're talking Mario Kart Wii with my card a DS I'll sold all of that wow I just Mario Kart 9 needs to get here man I don't even know what word of the sale stop for that one all right next up we have Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with the third spot selling 22.85 million we have Breath of the Wild has officially joined the 20 million seller list at 21.45 million essentially sold a million and a half last quarter Pokemon Sword and Shield has also joined the 20 million seller list that is at the number four spot we five spot sorry at 20.35 million Super Mario Odyssey is at the number six spot with 20.23 million also joining that 20 million sellers list Super Mario Party is at number seven there with 13.82 million at number eight we have Pokemon let's go Pikachu and Eevee at 13 million on the dot at number nine we have Splatoon 2 at 11.9 million at number 10 and this rounds out the top 10 but we got more beyond that we have new Super Mario Bros. U deluxe at 9.82 million so that's likely gonna cross 10 million here if it hasn't already Luigi's Mansion 3 is at 9.13 million and again it's highly likely to become another 10 million seller here in the next few months let's see next up we have Ring Fit Adventure yes Ring Fit Adventure that I just started playing baby let me tell you it's a real workout my arms are sore attack this that when you take that ring con and you're pushing it over your head like this to beat the boss and then like you're you know not doing the ab guard thing and then you're sitting here and you're pulling let me tell you works out the arms works out the abs the glutes everything is feeling oh hot fire it's a real thing man it might it might be better than we fit ever was in my opinion Ring Fit Adventure sold 8.68 million cumulative sales holy crap ring fits gonna be a 10 million plus seller oh here we go next up is Super Mario 3d all-stars sold 8.32 million it's sold an additional 3 million yeah it's probably hitting over 10 by the end of March so temporary release but over 10 million maybe Nintendo is on to something I don't know next up we have Super Mario Maker 2 at 6.91 million we have Paper Mario the origami King at 3.05 million Hyrule Warriors age of calamity at 2.84 million now we actually know the sales are at 3.5 million but it is published by Koei Tecmo in in Japan it's published by Nintendo everywhere else this is just Nintendo's side of the publishing sales because these are just Nintendo sales so we know it's at 3.5 million so we know it's actually a head of Paper Mario the origami King but that's just the overseas sales next up is Clubhouse Games 55 world worldwide classics that released last year 2.62 million Pikmin 3 Deluxe at 1.94 million interesting as I've seen stories that Pikmin 3 Deluxe is not like the best selling Pikmin game of all time so take that for what you will Pikmin 3 Deluxe is peak Pikmin popularity pretty cool Pikmin for me a model Pikmin for now all right moving on we have a zero-way chronicles definitive edition at 1.48 million a re-release outselling the original release yes and then we have Mario Kart live home circuit is officially a million seller and is a lot of fun we did a video on that it was great now this is when we get into the juicy part see the sales figures are all great Nintendo record profit levels there were five billion in profits like Nintendo just killing it last quarter but there you see there's more here there's more because we have the switch pro to talk about now Nintendo was asked in the Q&A session after the meeting directly hey what's up with a new model of switch in fact the exact question was this is according to Takahashi Machizuki who was present at the meeting new model this year Nintendo responded not planning to make an announcement anytime soon as we have Mario version in February and the monster hunter version in March so hey we have these two other switches coming we have nothing to announce nothing anytime soon notably when Nintendo's chief was asked this same question at the last fiscal meeting here's what he said we have we are not planning to release a new model in 2020 but today it was just not anytime soon he didn't say not in 2021 not anytime soon take that for what you will what a soon mean I don't know what's also interesting is this graph yeah David Gibson put this up he is an analyst he put this up on Twitter and what's interesting about this is this is Nintendo's de-stocking list so it's a little bit difficult to understand but essentially you see how the bars are really really low towards the right which include like the last five quarters of Nintendo production so I have some notes on this after getting some advice from other people who understand the de-stocking of this inventory more involved in manufacturing what this means is that Nintendo is de-stocking inventory switch to record low levels Nintendo's purposely reducing inventory levels of switch aka they're just making less switches right now today than at any point in switches life when demand is supposedly at its highest while COVID can be stated to play a role it has naturally this actually started happening in late 2019 and even after Nintendo built a new factory outside Japan it never really bounced back Nintendo is technically because you can go online easily and go into some stores and pick up a switch here and there they're actually successfully fulfilling demand at the moment but they're purposely only releasing enough switches for that demand they're not over stocking and exceeding it like they have done since three months after release so normally they exceed the stock and keep switches on store shelves they're not doing that they're not doing it on purpose so in other words Nintendo is choosing to not keep inventory levels higher despite having presently the production capability at this exact moment to do so why this happens notably every single time a new product is getting ready to launch and the public just doesn't pay attention to it because manufacturing lines are being split between the current switches and the future product in other words Nintendo is just doing what Nintendo does baby deny deny deny until they announce so switch pro 2021 I'm just saying the rumors have been percolating Nintendo's de-stocking switches purpose to keep inventory levels super low which is typically done when the manufacturing lines are split because they're making a new product I'm just just saying it's all lining up we know Nintendo actually has publicly known contracts with new display partners we know they built a new factory you know it is an actual factory they built it and a Samsung facility I'm just saying there's some stuff going on here that's adding up that has nothing to do with rumor mongers so here we go baby 2021 is shaping up to be quite the year obviously we know we got Super Mario 3 world plus Bowser's Fury later this month pretty hype that Bowser's Fury mode looks legit as hell if you ask me and then you know there's a little thing called monster hunter eyes arriving oh horrible that new Pokemon snap and this is just the games we know are coming this year there's going to be many many more alright folks I am defender of a dance from the intended problem and you guys for tuning into this little special episode of primaries and don't worry I didn't forget how we end well what's the tradition oh right