By Alex Chen | January 01, 0001
Nintendo has posted their financial data for the nine month period between April and December of 2015, showing some rather strong software sales: just Splatoon sold over four million copies, for example. For the 3DS, Nintendo’s best-selling game in this period was Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer, selling at a total of 2.93 million units worldwide. The Wii U had two major sellers released for it in the same period, Splatoon and Super Mario 
Maker, which sold a whopping 4.06 million and 3.34 million units worldwide, respectively.
On the hardware side, compared to the same period last year, there hasn’t been much change for the Wii U: Nintendo sold 3.06 million consoles compared to last year’s 3.03 million consoles: Japan: 0.75 million units (vs. u31.com เข้าสู่ระบบ last 
year’s 0.49 million units) Americas: 1.45 million units (vs. 1.64 million units) Everywhere else: 0.87 million units (vs. u31 ทางเข้า 0.9 million u31 เข้าสู่ระบบ units) There’s been a drop in worldwide unit sales for the 3DS—5.88 million vs. 7.08 million:cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"1756565443","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"nintendo","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); Japan: 2.01 million units (vs. last year’s 2.81 million units) Americas: 1.98 million units (vs. 2.19 million units) Everywhere else: 1.88 million units (vs. 2.08 million units) However, it’s worth noting that the bulk of these 3DS sales are for the New Nintendo 3DS which, distributed between its two models, moved a total of 4.23 million 
units worldwide in this period. That’s over 70% of total 3DS sales, and well over last year’s figure of 1.84 million New 3DS units sold worldwide.
As a result of its sales (which includes some strong Amiibo numbers), Nintendo generated an operating income of 42.4 billion yen ($351.31 million) for the period, which is an approx. 34% increase compared to last year’s figure of 31.6 billion yen ($261.82 million).
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