Nintendo profit surges over 50% on movie, console sales even as sales fall

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    "title": "Nintendo profit surges over 50% on movie, console sales even as sales fall",
    "author": "Yuri Kageyama, The Associated Press",
    "excerpt": "Nintendo’s first quarter profit surged 53.5% as the popularity of its recent Super Mario movie worked with solid demand for the Switch 2 gaming console to support the Japanese video-game company’s bottom line. Kyoto-based Nintendo Co. reported Thursday 147.4 billion yen ($933 million) in April-June profit, up from 96 billion yen in the same period a year ago. Quarterly sales dipped 9.5% to 517.8 billion yen ($3.3 billion). Working as a negative for Nintendo, as with many Japanese companies, were U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs , as well as the rising price of memory chips and other components. Nintendo is forecasting 310 billion yen ($2 billion) in profit for the full fiscal year through March 2027, down nearly 27% from the previous fiscal year, on annual sales slipping 11% to 2.05 trillion yen ($13 billion). Nintendo said sales of Switch 2 machines totaled 3.82 million globally. Nintendo’s older Switch business is still holding up, with both console and software sales continuing, even as the new machine is also in demand. In Switch 2 software, “Yoshi and the Mysterious Book,” released in May, and “Pokemon Pokopia,” released last year, were popular, leading to software sales totaling 9.46 million units for the quarter, according to Nintendo. “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie” raked in 517.8 billion yen ($3.3 billion), much of it from overseas. The Nintendo Switch 2, which...",
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