Nintendo also got a healthy boost in revenue from its intellectual property business, exemplified by the Super Mario film but also other royalties. Hardware sales jumped nearly 14% to 3.9 million Nintendo Switch machines, while software sales also grew, increasing 26% to 52 million games sold. Quarterly sales surged 50% to 461.3 billion yen ($3.2 billion). The Japanese video game maker's April-June net profit totalled 181 billion yen ($1.3 billion), up from nearly 119 billion yen a year ago. The "Lion King" 2019 remake, while it uses computer graphics and was an even a bigger hit, isn't categorized as an animation film.Īlso helping lift Nintendo's results was the popularity of "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom" game, released in May, the latest in the hit action-adventure series. That makes it one of the top-selling animation films on record, second only to "Frozen II," and the top animation film based on a video game.
Business news stories from across Canada and the world.The film has so far drawn more than 168 million people globally, grossing $1.3 billion. Nintendo reported a 52% increase in net profit for the first fiscal quarter on Thursday following the success of its Super Mario movie and the new Zelda video game.ĭemand was strong for Nintendo Switch game software, which received a boost from the release earlier this year of the film about the jumping plumber called "The Super Mario Bros.
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