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Nintendo Confirms 10-For-1 Stock Split To Boost Share ‘Liquidity’ And Investor Base

In other words, 1 currently held share will become 10 shares soon. Nintendo has taken the opportunity with its annual financial results to make some notable business moves, even if they’re little to do with the games we get to play or the systems we own. In addition to a planned share buyback, the company […]

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Kirby And The Forgotten Land Sells Over Two Million Copies In Just Two Weeks

And is the third best-selling Kirby game ever. Kirby and the Forgotten Land has set a number of records since it crashed onto our Switch’s on its delightful warp star of adorableness. It marked the franchise’s biggest launch in the UK ever, and it was the third best-selling game of March in the US. Now, […]

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It’s Official, Metroid Dread Is The Best-Selling Game In The Metroid Series

Knocks off Prime to claim the bounty. Following on from the February news that Metroid Dread had sold 2.74 million units from its October launch to the end of 2021 — a figure which put it behind only GameCube’s Metroid Prime in the series’ best-seller list — Nintendo’s end of year financial results have confirmed […]

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Nintendo Forecasts Profits And Sales To Drop In This Financial Year

Still expects Switch to once again pass 20 million hardware sales. After the dizzying highs of the 2020/2021 financial year, the most recent financial results from Nintendo show an expected but relatively modest drop following the pandemic / lockdown-related boom. The results are still very strong, yet we’re now into the sixth year of the […]

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Nintendo Aiming To Spend Over $400 Million On Another Share Buyback

Similar to a move in August 2021. The Switch-led successes for Nintendo over the last five years have enabled the company to once again generate significant profits and enhance its already impressive cash reserves. While investment has clearly gone into game development, will continue in terms of hardware R&D, and of course into major collaborations […]

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Pokémon Legends: Arceus Has Sold Over 12 Million Units Globally

And over 11 million of those were in 10 weeks! We know the Pokémon series is always a big seller, but we’re always surprised when we actually see the numbers. As part of Nintendo’s latest financial results, published today, the company revealed that Pokémon Legends: Arceus has sold over 12.64 million units worldwide up to […]

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Here Are The Top Ten Best-Selling Nintendo Switch Games As Of March 2022

Pokémon Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl overtake Let’s Go! Nintendo has just published its latest financial report, and one of the biggest highlights of it is seeing the total sales figures for the company’s most popular games. And there are no newcomers or big surprises here. Once again, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is at the […]

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Nintendo Switch Has Now Sold Over 107 Million Units

Though shortage of parts results in 20% decrease YoY. Nintendo has published its latest financial report, giving us a look at the total Switch sales so far. It’s looking good, with combined might of the Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch Lite, and Nintendo Switch – OLED Model selling 107.65 million units, inching ever closer to that […]

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Nintendo Reconfirms Release Windows For Major Upcoming Switch Games

Bayonetta 3 still on for 2022, Metroid Prime 4 and Advance Wars TBA. With Nintendo publishing its latest financial report, the company has reshared and updated its list of upcoming releases. We’ve had plenty of brand new releases to etch into the calendars over the last period, what with that beefy February Nintendo Direct. The […]