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Nintendo’s Q2 FY 2020/21 Numbers

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    As a publicly-traded company whose main business operation is videogames, Nintendo releases software and hardware sales regularly. Here is the website of the latest financial statement of the second quarter of the 2020 fiscal year.  1st Quarter 2020 Switch Hardware: 5.68 million Switch Software: 50.43 million  2nd Quarter 2020 Switch Hardware: 6.85 million Switch Software: 49.82 million  Lifetime to Date (LTD) Switch Hardware: 68.3 million Switch Software: 456.49 million  Considering that this is the 3.5 year of the Nintendo Switch, 68,300,000 units sold is an incredibly impressive number. The Switch is selling faster than all Nintendo Hardware in its history except for three pieces of hardware, the Nintendo Game Boy Advance, Nintendo Wii, and the Nintendo DS. The first two had its sales fall off a cliff in the fourth year, so a strong fourth year for the Nintendo Switch bodes very well compared to other Nintendo consoles. Let’s look at the lifetime sales of other Nintendo hardwar