Dhaka, Aug. 2 -- Nintendo, the Japanese video game maker behind the Super Mario and Pokemon franchises, reported an 18.6Per cent surge in net profit for the first fiscal quarter Friday on the back of strong demand for its new Switch 2 console.Kyoto-based Nintendo Co.'s April-June profit totaled 96.03 billion yen $640 million up from nearly 81 billion yen. Quarterly sales more than doubled to 572.36 billion yen $3.8 billion.Nintendo said it sold 3.5 million Switch 2 game consoles globally on the first four days after it hit store shelves June 5, a record pace for a Nintendo game machine. Its sales continue to be strong, it said.
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