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Nintendo earnings get a bump from Zelda and Super Mario Bros. Movie

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nintendo reported sales and profit figures above expectations for its second fiscal quarter ended September 30.

The Japanese video game company said it continues to benefit from sales related to The Super Mario Bros. Movie released in April and its flagship The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom game released in May. The movie has generated $1.36 billion in revenues to date at the box office.

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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.