Nintendo's Switch-era profit hasn't just surpassed the Wii and DS generation, it's beaten the entirety of the publisher's previous 35 years in video games
The profit Nintendo has earned from the Switch's ongoing life cycle has already surpassed that which it made from its previous 35 years combined.That startling statistic comes from Pierre485 on Twitter, who looked at Nintendo's net profit from 2017, the start of the Switch's run, to the current 2024 fiscal year and compared it to its net profit in the 35 years from 1981 to 2016. The former netted the company 2,576 billion yen ($16.6 billion USD) while the latter raked in 2,376 billion yen ($15.3