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Nintendo Beats Profit Estimates as Switch Lite Boosts Game Sales

Published 10/31/2019, 03:10 AM
Updated 10/31/2019, 04:03 AM
© Reuters.  Nintendo Beats Profit Estimates as Switch Lite Boosts Game Sales

© Reuters. Nintendo Beats Profit Estimates as Switch Lite Boosts Game Sales

(Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co. (T:7974) reported fiscal second-quarter profit that beat analyst estimates helped by the boost to software sales from the introduction of the Switch Lite model.

Operating income rose to 66.8 billion yen ($615 million) in the three months ended September, the Kyoto-based company said in a statement on Thursday. That’s more than the 50.5 billion yen average of analyst projections compiled by Bloomberg. Sales were 271.9 billion yen, compared with estimates of 250.8 billion yen. Nintendo left its full-year profit and revenue outlooks unchanged.

Nintendo has stuck with earnings projections that are far below analyst estimates despite a strong lineup of games for later this year and expectations for stronger hardware growth. The launch slate includes a new installment in the Zelda saga, Luigi’s Mansion and two Pokemon games. Nintendo can already claim its first mega-hit smartphone game with Mario Kart Tour, which was downloaded about 124 million times in the first month after launch. Its full profit potential is probably still ahead, when the app allows users to race against each other online.

“The biggest question for Nintendo is why they still haven’t enabled a multiplayer mode in Mario Kart Tour,” Jefferies Group senior analyst Atul Goyal said ahead of the earnings release. “This game already has a massive following and people have been clamoring for multiplayer. But more than a month since launch it still says ‘coming soon.’ It makes you wonder whether this says something about the speed of decision-making at Nintendo.”

The company kept its conservative forecast for operating profit of 260 billion yen on 1.25 trillion yen in revenue for the year ending March 2020. That’s short of analysts’ expectations of 308.1 billion yen and 1.29 trillion yen respectively. The company expects to sell 18 million Switch units and 125 million new software titles this fiscal year.

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