Nintendo’s financials are in for the first quarter of its 2024 fiscal year (April 1 – June 30) and, perhaps unsurprisingly, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has carried it through to a great result in sales of both software and hardware.
The marquee title sold a staggering 18.51 million units up until June 30th, which is just seven weeks following its May 12th release and has it already jump to the #9 spot in the top 10 first-party game sales on the Switch. Given we’re more than a month into the next quarter and still somewhat early in the game’s life that number has no doubt grown quite a bit by now.
Sales of Tears of the Kingdom also drove solid results for hardware with Nintendo moving 3.91 million Switch consoles, 86% of which were Switch OLED Models thanks largely to the release of the special edition Tears of the Kingdom edition. It’s a more than 13% increase on console sales year-on-year which is an impressive feat this long into the console’s life cycle and with rumours of a succeeding device growing hotter by the day.
Here’s how that top 10 software ranking is looking now:
Nintendo Switch Top 10 First Party Sales
- Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – 55.46 million
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons – 42.79 million
- Super Smash Bros. Ultimate – 31.77 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – 30.65 million
- Super Mario Odyssey – 26.44 million
- Pokemon Sword / Pokemon Shield – 25.92 million
- Pokemon Scarlet / Pokemon Violet – 22.66 million
- Super Mario Party – 19.39 million
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom – 18.51 million
- New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe – 16.17 million
Nintendo says it had strong digital sales through the quarter as well, with Tears of the Kingdom driving a 35.9% increase year-on-year and nearly half of total software sales being digital.
A schedule of upcoming launches was also included in the report, with the Princess Peach game that it recently announced amusing called out as “Princess Peach will star as the main character in a brand new game” among other announced releases like Super Mario RPG, Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and Metroid Prime 4 still without so much as a target release year.
