{"id":131703,"date":"2023-02-07T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-144740"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T12:30:00","slug":"digital-sales-make-up-nearly-half-of-fy-2023-switch-software-sales-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/digital-sales-make-up-nearly-half-of-fy-2023-switch-software-sales-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Sales Make Up Nearly Half Of FY 2023 Switch Software Sales So Far"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2766d53801056\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2766d53801056\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Switch\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2766d53801056\/switch.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTAzIj48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"503\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/2766d53801056\/switch.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Switch\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo has released its financial earnings report for Q3 of FY 2023, confirming that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2023\/02\/its-official-total-switch-sales-have-now-surpassed-the-game-boy-and-ps4\">Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Game Boy and the PlayStation 4 with over 120 million units shifted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the company has also confirmed that digital sales for the Switch were up by 21.5% during FY 2023 when compared to FY 2022, bringing in a staggering 310.0 billion yen. Not only that, but the overall proportion of digital sales compared to total software sales was 46%, meaning that nearly half of all software sales for FY 2023 so far were digital.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Digital Sales\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/52d97328b41e7\/digital-sales.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/52d97328b41e7\/digital-sales.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Digital Sales\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.co.jp\/ir\/pdf\/2023\/230207_4e.pdf\">Nintendo Co., Ltd.<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Digital sales gained a significant boost during Q3 thanks to the launch of both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet and Violet<\/a>, helping downloadable versions of package software reach almost 80.0 billion yen. Sales of Nintendo Switch Online and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/mario_kart_8_deluxe\">Mario Kart 8 Deluxe<\/a> Booster Course Pass have also helped maintain healthy digital sales for the fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously we&#8217;ve still got a a couple of months left until the end of the fiscal year, so the figures could still go either way, but it&#8217;s looking pretty solid for the Nintendo Switch despite the overall downturn in hardware and software sales for the year. Here&#8217;s hoping it maintains its success throughout 2023 and beyond!<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:144737 @ 2023-02-08T06:07:14+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>What do you make of Nintendo&#8217;s growth in the digital market? Do you buy digital games, or do you prefer boxed versions? Let us know!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life Nintendo has released its financial earnings report for Q3 of FY 2023, confirming that the Nintendo Switch has now outsold the Game Boy and the PlayStation 4 with over 120 million units shifted. In addition, the company has also confirmed that digital sales for the Switch were up by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}