Nintendo Reaches Threefold Profits During The COVID-19 Pandemic

JAKARTA - During the COVID-19 pandemic, many large companies suffered losses. However, some online retail and entertainment sectors or game consoles are growing rapidly, including Nintendo.

Quoting The Independent, Friday 6 October, the company behind the video games Super Mario and Pokemon reports that their first physical profit has more than tripled during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Its revenue for the six months to September jumped to 213 billion yen, up from 62 billion yen a year ago. Six months of sales also jumped to 769 billion yen from 444 billion yen.

Kyoto, Japan-based Nintendo said more than 5 million units of "Super Mario 3D All-Stars" game software for the Nintendo Switch had been sold during the period, and nearly 3 million units of "Paper Mario: The Origami King" were also affected. similar.

Previous releases have also continued to sell rapidly, including "Animal Crossing: New Horizons," which has now sold a cumulative 26 million units globally.

Not only that, reports also say that sales of Nintendo's mobile-based games are also selling well. The company certainly hopes that this will continue in the future. By offering another new game this year, "Pikmin 3 Deluxe."

For information, from last March Nintendo has raised its profit forecast to 300 billion yen, up from the previous projection of 200 billion yen. The latest forecast, if materialized, will mark a 16 percent increase from the 259 billion yen profit recorded in the previous fiscal year.