Today as part of Nintendo`s latest earnings report for the fiscal year ended March 31, Nintendo provided the first worldwide shipment update for the Nintendo Switch. The console has shipped 2.74 million units around the world since launch in March, while it has shipped 5.46 million games.The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has now sold 3.84 million units worldwide, including 2.76 million units Switch and 1.08 million on Wii U. Nintendo also called out 1-2 Switch, though all it said was that the game is `generating buzz`; no sales numbers were provided.Nintendo thinks the good times will keep rolling for the Switch, predicting to ship 10 million more units of hardware in the current fiscal year and 35 million games over the same period of time.Nintendo plan to ship 10 million units of hardware in FY17/18 and 35 million units of software in the same timeframe. Cumulative 12.74m — Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 27, 2017On the portable front, 3DS game sales were strong, Nintendo said, specifically calling out Pokemon Sun and Moon, which have now combined to sell 15.44 million units. Super Mario Maker for 3DS is now up to 2.34 million units, while Kirby: Planet Robobot has risen to 1.36 million.3DS hardware sales amounted to 7.27 million units for the period, up 7 percent year-over-year. Nintendo has now sold more than 66 million 3DS units worldwide, making it something of a juggernaut that Nintendo said it sees as `a platform that we can rely on for software sales.`For Wii U, the system sold 760,000 units during the period, down 77 percent year-over-year. A dramatic sales decrease was of course expected, given the launch of the Switch. Nintendo sold 14.8 million Wii U games during the period, down 46 percent compared to last year.Some other notes from Nintendo`s earnings report is that Amiibo sales were described as `limited,` coming in at 9.1 million figure units and 9.3 million card-types. Another tough spot for Nintendo was in the area of DLC. `There we ...
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