Nintendo's Record Breaking Year: Could Switch Become the Best Selling Console, Ever? - NVC 559
Nintendo Voice Chat
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🗓️ 6 May 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | What is up, SuperNinfriendos, it's me, Seth Macy, your temporary host back with episode |
| 0:07.4 | 559 of NVC. Today, I am joined by Matt Kim. Hello. |
| 0:13.2 | Passionator. Welcome. And industry legend, someone who's |
| 0:18.5 | pre-rear I've been following for like a decade and a half, Cat Bailey. Thank you so much. |
| 0:23.9 | It's me, Cat Bailey. Thanks for having me on the show. |
| 0:26.1 | I mean, we kind of head to because there's a lot of news and so we have like half the news team |
| 0:33.8 | right here to talk about the Nintendo news. There's fiscal news. There's a new programming |
| 0:38.5 | game that was just announced last night. And now Epic, the Epic versus Apple lawsuit, |
| 0:43.6 | spilling all of the industry beans, which is very exciting. All the hotgoss you can get from |
| 0:48.9 | the industry just keeps coming out. It's an amazing time to be in news. But we'll get right into it. |
| 0:56.2 | First topic of discussion. Nintendo has had its most profitable year |
| 1:04.5 | ever. 132 years of Nintendo or however many it is, or the 134, something like that. |
| 1:12.4 | This was the best year for them. The fiscal results from last year |
| 1:17.5 | revealed that Switch has now sold 85 million units, which is what eight times as many we use as |
| 1:27.3 | they sold. Yeah, they sold like what 13 million I think. Yeah. Hopefully somebody. Yeah. |
| 1:33.2 | Hopefully somebody checks the math on that one. Leave a shout out in the comments all your |
| 1:37.5 | methods. Their operating profits were up 85% year over year coming in at under $6 billion |
| 1:44.2 | billion just under it's like 5.9. But you know, I like to round round numbers. Yeah, when you're |
| 1:51.0 | talking about billions, I know you like rounding. I mean, what's a few? Yeah. What's a few million here |
| 1:57.4 | there? Yeah. Trump change. Yeah. I mean, the yacht that fits inside my other yacht cost a million |
| 2:04.4 | dollars. But just a minute. Nintendo wasn't able to get these matte profits from selling playing |
| 2:10.8 | cards back in the day. They still, if I'm not mistaken, they still have a playing card department. |
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