Nintendo has released its financial statement for the second quarter of the 2025-26 fiscal year (as well as the first half of the year as a whole), and it looks like Switch 2 games like Mario Kart World are selling pretty well.
As part of its fiscal results, Nintendo has revealed sales numbers for games released within the last few months, and Mario Kart World is currently sitting pretty at 9.57 million sales. Given that the Switch 2 itself has sold just over 10 million units to date, that’s a pretty high adoption rate for the racer.
3D platformer Donkey Kong Bananza, meanwhile, has racked up 3.49 million sales for itself, and given that Donkey Kong is perhaps not quite as powerful an IP as Mario when it comes to moving units (although there’s a developer in common in this case), that’s not bad at all.
Of course, in the same period, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe still managed to rack up 1.37 million sales, and Super Mario Party Jamboree wasn’t far behind, likely boosted by the Switch 2 Edition that launched back in July.
This quarter saw Nintendo’s sales and operating profit leap when compared to the same period last year, as you’d probably expect given that the Switch 2 was released in June (which technically sits in the first quarter of the year).
According to Nintendo, sales slowed slightly during this quarter «compared to the high demand seen immediately following» the Switch 2’s launch, but the console still managed to shift 4.54 million units between July and September.
All told, it’s more good news for Nintendo, and it suggests the company might well have been justified in reportedly asking for 25 million Switch 2 units to be manufactured by March next year.
Nintendo’s upcoming slate of games includes the likes of Kirby Air Riders, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, and the long-awaited Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, all of which are set to launch in the coming weeks. We’ll have to wait and see how they affect the company’s third-quarter financials.
