Nintendo posts a full-year profit as handhelds lift overall sales

Returning to a full-12 month profit after some rough times, Nintendo reported fiscal year earnings that slightly beat the financial community’s estimates.

Quarterly revenues were 106.8 billion yen ($890 million) for the fourth fiscal quarter ended March 31, compared with 72.61 billion yen ($610 million) a year earlier. Analysts had expected to be 94.13 billion yen ($790 million) in revenues for the quarter. Foreign exchange rates also helped improve Nintendo’s profit picture.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.