For the six months ended September, net profit rose 17.7 percent from a year earlier to a record
A weaker yen also boosted its repatriated overseas earnings. The depreciation of the yen pushed up its pretax profit by
The company said it changed its exchange rate assumption for the
Given the solid earnings, the gaming giant also revised its net profit forecast for the year to
Group sales are now projected at
Sales of software titles for the Switch grew 1.8 percent from a year earlier to 97.1 million copies in the six months, helped by the hit "The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom," the newest iteration launched in May of the popular action game.
The blockbuster success of "The Super
With the brisk sales of popular titles, Nintendo raised its Switch software sales projection for the business year to 185 million copies from an earlier estimate of 180 million while maintaining the projection for the console at 15 million units.
==Kyodo
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