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Animal Crossing catapults Nintendo to stratospheric earnings – The Verge
Nintendo has posted extraordinarily high earnings for its normally quiet April-June quarter. Profit was up 428 percent, and Animal Crossing: New Horizons sold more than 10 million units in the quarter, bringing its total sales up to 22.4 million.
More than 22 million copies sold
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Nintendo has posted extraordinarily high earnings for its normally quiet April-June quarter, as Animal Crossing: New Horizons continues to be a sales juggernaut that drives Switch hardware purchases.
Operating profit is up 428 percent year-on-year to 145 billion yen ($1.37 billion) off 357 billion yen ($3.39 billion) in revenue, with Switch sales up 166 percent to 5.68 million systems in the quarter. Nintendo has now shipped…
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