Nintendo has reported an upturn in profits and sales for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2019, despite the Switch just missing out on its revised full-year sales target of 17 million units.
The Japanese console maker saw net sales rise by 13.7 percent year-on-year to 1.2 trillion yen ($10.75 billion), while profits increased by 39 percent to 194 billion yen ($1.74 billion) over the same period.
Nintendo largely credits that upswing to strong software sales on the Nintendo Switch. The company had 23 million-selling Switch titles across the entire year, with flagship releases like Super Smash Bros. Ultimate (13.81 million units), Pokemon Let's Go (10.63 million units), and Super Mario Party (6.4 million units) leading the charge.
On the hardware front, annual Switch sales totaled 16.95 million units. That's just short of Nintendo's revised sales target of 17 million units, but a far cry from the company's initial goal of 20 million units