Nintendo’s Q2 FY2022 results gives us sales numbers for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD and more

Nintendo has posted its financial outcomes [PDF] for the second quarter of the fiscal 12 months ending in March 2022, giving us some product sales numbers for every newly launched titles along with lifetime product sales updates for longstanding Nintendo Swap video video games.

Most likely probably the most notable new product sales amount we get this quarter is that for The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD, which launched on July 16 worldwide. As of September 30, the game has purchased 3.60 million gadgets. As some extent of comparability, the distinctive launch of Skyward Sword for Nintendo Wii purchased 3.52 million inside its launch 12 months in FY2012 [PDF].

As typical, there’s on a regular basis pretty a bit to sift through to ensure that you knowledge on all of Nintendo’s catalog, nonetheless proper right here at RPG Site, we’ll focus on the RPG (or related) product sales information. Listed below are the product sales updates compared with one quarter ago for a couple of of the most important RPG-related video video games on Nintendo Swap.

• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 24.13 million (up from 23.20 million)

• Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Defend: 22.64 million (up from 21.85 million)

• Pokemon Let’s Go Pikachu/Eevee: 13.83 million (up from 13.57 million)

• Ring Match Journey: 12.21 million (up from 11.26 million)

• New Pokemon Snap: 2.19 million (up from 2.07 million, doesn’t embody JP product sales as a result of it was printed by The Pokemon Agency throughout the space)

• Miitopia: 1.37 million (up from 1.04 million)

Nintendo’s {{hardware}} and software program program product sales are down YoY, though that’s largely on account of Animal Crossing: New Horizons selling terribly successfully in FY2021, to say the least. With Pokemon Smart Diamond and Pokemon Shining Pearl releasing later this month, it’s going to be attention-grabbing to see how their launch product sales study to only recently launched Pokemon titles when Q3 FY2022 outcomes land early subsequent 12 months.