Nintendo announced earnings results for the third quarter and sales results for the nine months ended December 2017. The company's sales in the first nine months of 2017 more than doubled from a year earlier to JPY 857 billion ($7.9 billion).

Profit in October-December was JPY 83.7 billion ($771 million), up 29% year-on-year.

The company revised its full-year 2018 profit upward by 41% to JPY 120 billion ($1.1 billion).