Nintendo revealed on Thursday the first quarter financial results for its current fiscal year ending on March 31, 2027. The Nintendo Switch 2 system has sold 23.68 million units as of June 30. The console sold 3.82 million units so far in this fiscal year, which started on April 1. The Nintendo Switch console has sold 156.59 million units.

Total Switch 2 software sales amount to 58.17 million units as of June 30, with 9.46 million from this fiscal year so far. The Mario Kart World launch game representing 15.39 million units, including bundle pack-ins. The Donkey Kong Bananza 3D platformer game sold 4.78 million units, the Switch 2 Edition of the Pokémon Legends Z-A game sold 3.99 million units, Masahiro Sakurai‘s Kirby Air Riders sequel game sold 1.90 million units, and the Switch 2 Edition of the Super Mario Party Jamboree game sold 1.15 million units. Digital game sales accounted for 61.5% of total software sales this year so far for Switch and Switch 2.

The Switch console has sold .66 million units so far this fiscal year as of June 30. This number includes sales for the Nintendo Switch, Lite, and OLED consoles. Switch software sales amount to 33.81 million units.

Tomodachi Life, one of the last games Nintendo developed for the original Switch console, has sold 7.94 million units. Pokémon Pokopia has sold 1.27 million units.

The bestselling titles for Switch as of June 30 are:

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe: 71.53 million copies
• Animal Crossing: New Horizons: 50.29 million copies
• Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: 38.14 million copies
• The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 34.06 million copies
• Super Mario Odyssey: 30.80 million copies
• Pokémon Scarlet/Pokémon Violet: 28.46 million copies
• Pokémon Sword/Pokémon Shield: 27.26 million copies
• The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom: 22.71 million copies
• Super Mario Party: 21.36 million copies
• New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe: 19.10 million copies

The Switch 2 console sold over 3.5 million units worldwide in the first four days following its release in June 2025. According to the company, this is the highest global sales amount for any Nintendo hardware within its first four days. The system sold 5.82 million units in its first fiscal year’s first quarter ending in June 2025. Switch 2 sold over 17 million units as of the end of the previous fiscal year’s third quarter on December 31, surpassing the Nintendo Wii U’s lifetime sales of 13.56 million units.

Nintendo raised suggested retail prices for Switch 2 on May 25 in Japan. It will raise the prices in Europe, the United States, and Canada on September 1 “in light of changes in market conditions, and after considering the global business outlook.”

Nintendo launched the Switch console in March 2017. The Switch surpassed Sony‘s PlayStation 4 and Nintendo‘s Game Boy/Game Boy Color as of the end of 2022. The console surpassed the Nintendo DS’ lifetime sales of 154.02 million units to become Nintendo‘s best selling console of all time last February It is now the second best-selling console of all time, and stands behind only PlayStation 2.

Source: Nintendo (link 2)

The official X/Twitter account for the television anime of Yū Chiba‘s Kindergarten WARS (Yōchien Wars) manga revealed on Thursday that Sumire Morohoshi will play Una, kindergarten teacher for the Violet class who is said to be the strongest.

The anime will debut in spring 2027.

The anime stars:

Shinsuke Gomi (episode director for Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Secrets of the Silent Witch) is directing the anime at Sunrise and Felix Film, and Junko Yamanaka (Kamisama Kiss, Servamp) is designing the characters.

Shueisha‘s MANGA Plus website publishes the Kindergarten WARS manga digitally. Yen Press published the manga’s fourth volume physically on April 28.

Yen Press describes the story:

Rita is Convict 999, a former legendary assassin who now works at a kindergarten for the children of world leaders. Her job is to protect the schoolchildren from the clutches of would-be assassins sent after them! But even with her overwhelming strength, Rita has a weakness—she’s head-over-heels for good-looking men!

Chiba launched the manga on Shueisha‘s Shonen Jump+ app and website in September 2022. Shueisha published the manga’s 18th compiled book volume on August 4. The manga entered its final arc in March 2025, and has over 2 million copies in circulation.

Chiba launched the Yōchien Wars -LUKE- (Kindergarten WARS -LUKE-) spinoff manga in November 2024. The spinoff manga is a 180-page story about the character Luke.

Source: Kindergarten WARS anime’s X/Twitter account

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