 Hey everyone, before we get into today's video, I want to remind you to enter our Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition giveaway to enter all you need to do is like this video, comment down below, subscribe to the channel and hit that bell icon, it's your one entry and we will announce the winner through a community post at the end of the month. Today is it folks, today is the day that I have been waiting for anxiously for months and that is because Nintendo has released their financial results for the full fiscal year, including obviously this last quarter. And that means we have some animal crossing sales data. Now we have two different numbers. There is the number that they're officially listing on their website, their sales data website, which is the 11 day total through the fiscal year. Then they also published a six week total as well, however, these aren't considered finalized numbers because they basically didn't fully tabulate everything, it's probably a little bit higher and we won't get a full update again for another three months. But here's the crazy thing, the 11 day total was 11.77 million, that is the official total through the end of the fiscal year for animal crossing New Horizons. Now there is also a total, you will also get on this chart for the first six weeks and that shows 13.41 million units sold. And the interesting thing here is this now makes Animal Crossing New Horizons the most popular game in Animal Crossing history, it has sold more than any game before it. And as you're seeing with the six week totals, it is skyrocketed past the six week totals for the two previous most popular entries in the series, both on the DS and 3DS. So crazy numbers for Animal Crossing, I think we all knew the numbers were going to be absolutely insane. It's already one of the best selling games on Switch, easily in the top 10, firmly in the top 10, and who knows where it's going to stop. Now we have a whole bunch of numbers beyond that to look at, and including Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, which is still the top selling game on Switch at 24.77 million units. Maybe that doesn't surprise anyone, but this does make Mario Kart 8 Deluxe the second best selling Mario Kart game of all time, this officially passes the numbers it did on DS. So yeah, the only one that's behind now is Wii, and who knows if it'll catch up to that. Beyond that we have Smash Bros, Super Smash Bros Ultimate at 18.84 million, Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey are both at 17.41 million, kind of interesting the numbers are that close that they're exactly the same. Pokemon Sword and Shield for those wanting an update on that is now at 17.37 million, and that means it has officially passed Diamond and Pearl, it's on pace to actually be the second best selling Pokemon game of all time behind obviously the Gen 1 games. Let's go Pikachu and let's go Eevee is right behind that with 11.97 million, probably will hit 12 million at some point here. Splatoon 2 is at 10.13 million, it is now officially a 10 million seller, there is no doubt how popular that IP is now. Super Mario Party as well is another 10 million seller at 10.10, and that might be shocking to some people, you haven't seen a Mario Party game sell like this maybe ever, I think it's the best selling Mario Party game we've ever seen. So crazy and rounding out their top 10 software right now is New Super Mario Bros. You Deluxe at 6.6 million. So even that's doing really well, especially compared to the Wii U one considering it's just a port. And what's interesting about all this is that makes nine titles. That's right, nine titles on Switch have passed 10 million in sales. To put this in perspective, and this is just crazy, I had to look this up, zero games on Wii U sold over 10 million, not even one, only seven games sold over 10 million on 3DS, only nine games on Wii. So it's right there with Wii and 11 games on the DS did this feed. So it could potentially pass Wii and DS before it's all said and done. And I keep thinking, what else could they release? It's going to sell over 10 million. Well, another Zelda game, perhaps, you know, the sequel The Breath of the Wild could possibly, I mean, it sold the original, sold 17. Is it that hard to think that the sequel is going to sell over 10, which would be the second best selling Zelda game of all time? Is it crazy to think another Mario game could do that? I don't think so. And this is before we consider what if they release a Mario Kart 9? What's that going to do? So there's possibilities out there for Nintendo to get past it. And this is assuming they can't somehow hit the jackpot with another new IP or something, you know, like a Splatoon and just dominate. Who really knows what's going to happen? Nintendo has so many big selling franchises that it's insane to me to think that these are the numbers we're seeing out there and that Switch is essentially right now the most popular platform since the DS. Yes, I'm saying since the DS. I'm not even going Wii. I'm going I want to Nintendo's most popular system they have ever released. And why is that? Well, we have updated sales numbers for the Switch itself. The OG Switch or the original model, the the fat one that sits on your TV and can do TV mode or portable. That one with the joy cons is sold 2.27 million units as last fiscal quarter, whereas the light version has sold 1.02 million, giving you a total of 3.29 million for the fiscal quarter. And that puts us up to 21.03 million units sold in the past fiscal year for Nintendo. That moves the total number of switches up to 55.77 million. Or in other words, if you take the Nintendo GameCube and the Nintendo 64 and add the sales of those two systems together, Switch has surpassed the combined sales of both. What's interesting here is that their current projections for this fiscal year are lower than last year. They had 20 million last year this year. They're at nineteen point five million projected, could surpass that, could fall under. I guess it's hard to predict everything with the worldwide pandemic. Right now they have 140 million software projected as well for this upcoming year. Again, these are really hard projections to make right now based on anything other than data from the prior years when we weren't having issues. Nintendo is in an interesting place here with Switch, because as you're seeing on a couple of charts here, which, you know, credit to reset arrow where I got these from, Nintendo Switch's momentum is unlike their most popular platforms in the past. Nintendo Switch's momentum is peaking later than it did with other platforms and doesn't appear like it's going to have the big fall off that other platforms have had as well, whereas if this was the peak year of 21 million, nineteen point five million is not a huge fall off in comparison to the fall off years of we DS, 3ds, etc. So Switch is actually doing quite well in terms of its sales momentum and potentially could become Nintendo's second best selling. I don't know if I quite want to go all the way to say it's going to sell 150 million units because that's 100 million units more than it sold now. But I think it easily could surpass the we totals at this point. You can maintain this momentum for at least another couple of years. So it could surpass we potentially surpassed PlayStation four, but that past PlayStation three for sure. Maybe PS one as well. I think PS two and DS are going to be like those untouchable numbers that nothing's ever going to get back up to as far as I'm concerned. But you never know. Clearly, Nintendo has a hit year. And it's not just to me that it's like this mega system seller. Like it's just selling little units. It's the amount of software moving as well. It's moving in an insane amount of software that Nintendo's never seen, honestly, if we're looking at the history of the company. And speaking of things we've never seen, there was this data analysis researcher on Twitter that came out and said that Nintendo has increased their spending into research and development to 33 billion yen to put this in perspective. That is the most Nintendo has invested in the research and development in the history of the company. So clearly, Nintendo isn't just resting on their laurels. They are working on something. I don't know what we don't know. Research and development is a really wide net for Nintendo. Yes, that covers new hardware, but that also covers movies. That also covers theme park development that covers basically anything Nintendo is doing that is not out yet. And in terms of not in terms of software, but in terms of hardware or new initiatives in the other fields. And Nintendo is investing a ton. So does this mean they're preparing for that next generation switch? Does this mean they're preparing for, you know, an upgrade plan, an upgrade scheme where they're going to search pros, which to it's going to be more like an iPhone upgrade plan where not every single thing is a new generation of leap. It'll be interesting to see what they're doing with that. And obviously, for those that are hoping for news on new hardware, this is probably the closest you're going to get to official news that Nintendo is working on something because they're putting more money than they've ever put in the history of the company and the research and development. They wouldn't be doing that if there's not something being planned. You would figure, you know, if they're investing that much or they're trying to rush something in the market. I don't know if they're trying to rush anything because of the new generation systems coming out. I certainly don't think we're seeing a new switch at this point this year. I think any shot at the Switch Pro this year is gone due to the pandemic and Nintendo's inability to even keep up with current demand, let alone making a new system. But I do think that doesn't mean that next year is enough potential here for a new gen switch or an upgraded switch of some type. And Nintendo might know, hey, look, once we get past this year and those next gen systems are catching up to their supply and demand, we need to have something land, whether it's in the spring, the summer, the fall, whatever. We need to get people excited in talking about Switch hardware again. And so hopefully they have something in the works of that. Of course, Nintendo could be doing something crazy and nothing ever comes of this because just because Nintendo's spending a lot of money in their research and development doesn't mean that we're going to get anything out of it or anything that seems like they spent a lot of money because a lot of ideas, a lot of things get made and scrapped. There's a billion patents out there for Nintendo that never became products. So we'll just have to hold on to our but cheeks and see what happens. But what I do know is this is a lot of data, a lot of information. And I'm really excited. Nintendo is in a good place. Nintendo is healthier as a company than they've pretty much ever been beyond the Wien DS era. We can't ignore the Wien DS era because when I talked about, you know, the number of 10 million selling games, Nintendo was having all those 10 million selling games like the seven on we, the 11 on the S. I'm sorry, the nine on we and the 11. So the 20 plus 10 million titles that they had had happened at the same time. So Nintendo was clearly more successful as a company during the Wien DS era where they sold 250 million units of hardware. Switch can't compete with that. So no doubt that even though Switch is skyrocketing right now, it can't compete at Nintendo's absolute best. But is it better than what they were doing with 3DS and Wii U? Absolutely. Is it better than they were doing with NES and Game Boy? No, I don't know. The current pace right now has an on pace with with combining NES and Game Boy together. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens along all here. But Nintendo is in a very, very good place right now. And this is while they're opening or will be opening up a theme park. I'm sure there's some delays with that now in Japan and then eventually down in the Universal Studios in Florida. This is while Nintendo is Mario movie in the works, which should be pretty decent to be made by at least a team that has successful movies, you know, basically a lot of moviegoers going out there. Obviously, the Sonic movie ended up being better than people expected. So maybe that sets the Mario movie up for better expectations and bigger crowds. Who knows Mario should get bigger crowds bigger than than Sonic. I think we all know that. So yeah, it's going to be interesting to see what happens. I'm pretty stoked in general for the future of Nintendo. And that's saying something because today, literally, like probably minutes after this video goes up is a new inside Xbox, which I hope to be live streaming. We shall see. There's a lot going on today. If not, I'll at least react to the news after the fact on that inside Xbox is going to be showing up a bunch of a bunch of games, all of which that will be on the Xbox Series X. So we're going to see some next gen stuff today, even though that stuff is going to be games that are still going to come to current gen, but going to be enhanced on Xbox Series X. We at least get to see enhanced gameplay beyond years of war five. So it's going to be nice. We have a big day of news today and it starts with Nintendo just crushing it in terms of sales. So thank you guys so much for tuning in. I am Nathan Robles from Nintendo Prime. Sure to enter our Xenoblade Chronicles definitive edition giveaway by liking this video, commenting down below, subscribing to the channel, hitting that bell icon. I got to get out of this video, guys, because we have that inside Xbox. I got to cover, if not live, at least after the fact. So see you guys in another video later today.