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Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Nintendo Switch sell more than 2.7 million units

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Nintendo reported tonight that it has sold more than 2.74 million units of its Nintendo Switch game console since it went on sale in March, and it has also sold more than 2.76 million copies of its flagship Switch game, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

The Kyoto, Japan-based company reported the numbers in its earnings report for the fiscal year ended March 2017. Nintendo reported revenues of $4.4 billion, compared to about $4.5 billion a year ago. Profit was $921 million, compared to $148 million a year earlier.

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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.