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Nintendo’s Results Show Why Console Sales and Profit Can Diverge

In this lesson: Read overlapping time periods and identify the correct comparison base.

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Read the story

Nintendo’s November 5 results put cumulative Switch 2 sales at 26.35 million units through September 30. Of that total, 6.49 million were sold in the April–September period; the figures describe different time spans and should not be added together.

Across Nintendo’s business, revenue declined 12.1% from the same six months a year earlier, while operating profit increased 49.1%. Nintendo attributed the improvement to software accounting for a greater share of sales and a refund of previously recorded US tariff costs.

The company left its full-year financial forecast unchanged.

Source: Nintendo, 2026-11-05. https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2026/261105e.pdf

Read and practise

1. Why would adding 6.49 million to 26.35 million overstate the total?

   1. The six-month sales are already included in the cumulative total
   2. The two figures refer to different console models
   3. Both figures measure only game sales

2. What comparison produced the 12.1% revenue decline?

   1. April–September versus the previous full year
   2. April–September versus the immediately preceding six months
   3. April–September versus the same six months one year earlier

Your turn

Summarise the profit change without implying that revenue rose, and include both reasons Nintendo gave.

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