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It wasn't very long ago that Nintendo lagged far behind its competitors in the video games horse race. But the Japanese company has always proven resilient, and 2017 has so far been one of its best years ever.
The company said Monday that its net profit jumped 35 per cent in April-September from a year earlier, helped by popularity of its Switch hybrid game machine and new releases.
It logged a 51.5 billion yen ($584 million) net profit in the fiscal first half-year, compared with a 38.3 billion net profit in the same period a year earlier.
Nintendo has shipped 7.63 million Switch devices since its launch in March. According to Bloomberg, the company is on track to sell more than 16 million units in the device's first 13 months. That's more Switch consoles in one year than its predecessor, the ill-fated Wii U, has sold since it launched in 2012.
In just five days, the new Super Mario Odyssey video game for the Nintendo Switch system sold more than 1.1 million units in the U.S. alone. That makes it the fastest-selling Super Mario game ever in the U.S.,.....
This makes Super Mario Odyssey the best-reviewed game on Metacritic for any system of the last three years, tied only with Nintendo Switch launch game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
