April-September profit at Nintendo Co., which didn’t break down quarterly results, totaled nearly 271.3 billion yen ($1.8 billion), up from 230 billion yen a year earlier.
Sales surged 21% to 796 billion yen ($5.3 billion).
Ahead of the holidays, Nintendo is planning to release the “Super Mario RPG” game software and Pokemon games.
Nintendo, based in Kyoto, started selling “Super Mario Bros. Wonder” last month, as the first totally new Super Mario series game played in side-scrolling mode in more than a decade.
Nintendo raised its full fiscal year profit forecast to 420 billion yen ($2.8 billion) from the 340 billion yen ($2.3 billion) estimate it gave in May.
Persons:
Mario, “ Mario, Zelda, ”, it’s, ___ Yuri Kageyama
Organizations:
TOKYO, — Nintendo, Nintendo Co, Nintendo, Mario Bros, “ Mario Kart, U.S
Locations:
”, Kyoto