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Nintendo beats December quarter expectations and ups forecast to 15.5M Switch units in fiscal year

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo reported quarterly results on Tuesday that beat its previous forecasts and it said it now expects to sell 15.5 million Switch consoles during the fiscal year ending March 31, 2024.

The Kyoto, Japan-based game company said net sales were $4 billion, down 6% from a year ago but up from $3.82 billion that analysts had expected. Net profit was $920 million, up 18% from a year ago and above expectations.

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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.