Nintendo just announced its highest first quarter profit ever thanks to sales of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and The Super Mario Bros. Movie. The company earned 185.44 billion yen ($1.3 billion) on sales of 461.34 billion yen ($3.2 billion), easily battering its previous fiscal Q1 record of 144.7 billion set in 2020, the company revealed in its latest earnings report.
The numbers on those two properties are impressive. Around the world, 168.10 million people watched The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and the company announced total box office revenue of $1.349 billion as of July 26th — the highest ever for an original film based on a video game, and the second-highest for an animated film. That let to a massive 190 percent year-over-year increase in revenue for Nintendo's "mobile and IP-related income" category.