Nintendo Co. reported a lower fiscal second-quarter net profit on Thursday as sales of its Switch 2 console slowed, while the Kyoto-based company kept its full-year forecasts, The Japan Times said².

A Bloomberg account summarized by Techmeme put fiscal second-quarter net profit at $468 million, down 16% from a year earlier, and said rising Switch 2 component costs reduced margins¹.

The same Techmeme summary said Switch 2 hardware sales in the first half of Nintendo's fiscal 2027, the six months through September, were 6.49 million units, 37% below the year-earlier period¹.

The Japan Times said Nintendo is maintaining its annual forecasts despite the quarterly drop².

The Japan Times also noted that a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time was scheduled for Thursday and that analysts would watch whether the title supports Switch 2 demand after the console's 2025 launch².

The two accounts agree that quarterly profit fell as hardware unit sales cooled; they differ in the figures they lead with, with Techmeme stressing the dollar profit decline, component costs and first-half unit totals, and The Japan Times stressing an unchanged annual outlook and the new Zelda release^1,2.

What Nintendo said in unquoted detail beyond those two write-ups, and how much of the first-half hardware drop is mix, pricing or launch-anniversary comparison, was not set out in the pages reviewed^1,2.