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Nintendo's Record Breaking Year: Could Switch Become the Best Selling Console, Ever? - NVC 559

Nintendo Voice Chat

IGN & Geek Media

Technology, Leisure, Video Games

4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Welcoooome to Nintendo Voice Chat! Nintendo just had its most profitable year ever, which has the NVC crew wondering if the Switch could become the best-selling console of all time. Join guest host Seth Macy and his panel of Ninfriendos for a discussion about the Big N's record-breaking year. Plus, Nintendo just announced a new game, Game Builder Garage, which looks like Super Mario Maker meets Dreams. And, stick around to hear some tidbits of Nintendo news that's coming out of the trial between Epic and Apple. It's a packed week here on NVC! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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