Zelda, 'Mario' boosted Nintendo to record profit in first quarter

New Zelda software revives 6-year-old Switch's momentum

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The new game The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and "The Super Mario Brothers Movie" contributed to the record first-quarter profit of Nintendo. (Source photos by Kosaku Mimura, Nintendo official YouTube channel and 2023 Nintendo and Universal Studios)

NATSUMI KAWASAKI, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- Nintendo announced on Thursday that its net income for the April-June period rose 52% to a record high of 185 billion yen ($1.2 billion) from a year ago.

Launching The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom -- the 20th main installment in the series for the action adventure game The Legend of Zelda -- for its Switch console in May, the game developer enjoyed record-breaking popularity, selling 10 million units within three days of its launch in Japan.

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