Nintendo sees FY profit rising 13%, Switch 2 unit sales of 15 million

TOKYO (Reuters) - Nintendo connected Thursday forecast operating nett would emergence 13% to 320 cardinal yen ($2.22 billion) successful the twelvemonth ending March.

The Kyoto-based gaming institution said it expects to merchantability 15 cardinal Switch 2 units successful the fiscal year.

For the twelvemonth ended March, Nintendo reported operating nett fell 46.6% to 282.5 cardinal yen.

Nintendo is preparing to motorboat the Switch 2 connected June 5.

The games console volition win the Switch, which has sold much than 150 cardinal units since its 2017 motorboat and transformed Nintendo's fortunes aft the Wii U flopped.

The motorboat volition trial Nintendo's quality to negociate its proviso concatenation arsenic it works to minimise disruption from a commercialized warfare betwixt the United States and China.

Nintendo paused the commencement of U.S. pre-orders arsenic it considered the interaction of expanding U.S. tariffs. It aboriginal said it would support pricing astatine $449.99.

Lottery applications successful Japan bespeak robust request for the much almighty gaming device, which offers a bigger surface and amended graphics than its predecessor.

Xbox shaper Microsoft and PlayStation shaper Sony person some hiked console prices successful caller weeks.

($1 = 144.1900 yen)

(Reporting by Sam Nussey; Editing by Christopher Cushing)