Nintendo on sell-through of first-party Switch games, evergreen titles
This information comes from Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa…
This graph shows sell-through of first-party Nintendo Switch software in the six months from April through September in all major markets. Sell-through of firstparty software in the first half of this fiscal year grew by 53% compared to the same period in the previous fiscal year.
This graph shows the trend since April for the sellthrough we just looked at. We have been steadily releasing titles since this summer, and they all have been selling well, leading to growth in sell-through in the second quarter.
In addition to new titles, our rich library of existing titles released during previous fiscal years also contributed to strong sales.
As you can see, the sell-through of these evergreen titles that were released before March 2019 continued to grow since April, and have been a major presence. Consumers who purchase a new Nintendo Switch system for the first time today view these evergreen titles as equally valuable to the new titles. As the hardware spreads, we can expect the sales of these evergreen titles to continue to grow as well.
This pie graph indicates in red the proportion of sellthrough of titles released before the end of March 2019 out of all titles sold during the six months of April through September. The fact that those titles, which include the evergreen titles we just saw, account for over 60% of total sell-through demonstrates how they greatly contribute to software sales as a whole.
