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Nintendo reports big gains from Pokémon games in December results

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Buoyed by Pokémon game sales, Nintendo beat its financial expectations for the third fiscal quarter ended December 31, but overall sales are still lower than a year ago.

Analysts expected Nintendo to report a quarterly net profit of 34.2 billion yen ($301 million), up from 29.1 billion yen ($256 million) a year earlier, for the three months ending December 31. The actual results were 64.7 billion yen ($569 million).

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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.