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Nintendo Switch Has Shipped 111.08 Million Units as Semiconductor Shortage Causes Drop Year-on-Year

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Nintendo announced its financial results and published an update on the number of Switch units shipped worldwide since the console’s launch.

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Today Nintendo announced its quarterly financial results and published an update on the number of Switch units shipped worldwide since the console’s launch.

The data is updated as of June 30, 2021, when the latest fiscal quarter (which began on April 1) ended.

Specifically, the infographic below reveals exactly how many Nintendo Switch units have been shipped to retailers. 111.08 million units of the hybrid console have hit the shelves as of June 30, 2022. We also get to see software units, and figures for the venerable 3DS.

This means that the console has shipped 3.43 million units worldwide during the quarter (compared to 2.4 million PS5 units shipped by Sony in the same period).

This is a 22.9% drop in unit sales year-on-year. While third-party games helped drive hardware sales, the semiconductor shortage affected production. That being said, Nintendo says that demand remains stable with the Switch in the sixth year of its life cycle.

Sell-through to customers of first-party software increased year-on-year, reaching the second-highest level for a first quarter of the fiscal year since the release of the Switch.

The number of playing users for the Switch in the trailing 12 months continues to raise, having reached 104 million in the period between July 2021 and June 2022.

As you can see in the table below, Nintendo did not change its predictions for Nintendo Switch sales or software sales made in May. The company expects to ship 21 million Switch units in the full fiscal year until March 2023, which would bring the total to 128.65 million units if the goal was achieved.

Taking a look at the financial results, both net sales and operating profit dropped year-on-year. That being said, ordinary profit increased.

The consolidated financial forecast for the full fiscal year remained the same, with Nintendo expecting year-on-year drops in both net sales and operating profit.

Due to delays in the procurement of semiconductors, Nintendo didn’t manage to produce as many Switch units as it aimed to so far, but the company expects deliveries to gradually improve from the late summer toward autumn. They will work to deliver as many units as possible during the Holiday season in every region.

Interestingly, Kirby and the Forgotten Land saw the highest sell-through for an entry of the series to date, selling to customers over 4 million units in 15 weeks.

Nintendo Switch Sports has shipped 4,840,000 units, Mario Strikers: Battle League has shipped 1,910,000 units, Kirby and the Forgotten Land shipped 4,530,000 units, and Mario Kart 8 Deluxe has reached 46,820,000 units shipped.

These were the four Nintendo games that sold over a million units during the examined quarter.

If you want to compare with historical data, you can read our article dedicated to the previous quarter, published in May.

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VFL or AFL? Patch’s preference for Cunners’ return

VFL or AFL? Patch's preference for Cunners' return

North Melbourne is torn over whether to pick courageous midfielder Ben Cunnington in the AFL or ease him back into football through the reserves.

The Kangaroos veteran has not played since round 19, 2021 after battling testicular cancer.

But Cunnington is set to finally be available to play this weekend in a major boost for the club.

Caretaker coach Leigh Adams is weighing up whether to bring Cunnington in for the AFL clash with the Sydney Swans at Marvel Stadium on Sunday, or ease him back via the VFL against the same opponents at Arden St.

The 31-year-old was tracking well to return last month before tweaking his calf at training, and last week tested positive for COVID-19.

“He has to get through main skills, then we’ll have the discussion with the performance team whether we think it’s best for him to have a run around in the twos for a week or bring him straight back in,” Adams said on Wednesday .

“I’m pretty sure I know what his preference is and the coach’s preference, it will be just what’s best for his body going forward.

“At this time of year, it’s a great story for us and the motivation for the group and for the footy club.”

Adams admits the coaches face a tough decision but will be guided by the medical staff.

Cunnington was still one of the Kangaroos’ best midfielders before his cancer battle and he has been sorely missed by the club this season.

He has played 227 games for North since being taken with pick five in the 2009 draft.

“The last thing we’d want to do is he breaks down and he’s out for the rest of the year,” Adams said.

“It’s probably going to be the VFL, even though we’d love it to be straight back in.

“Deep down I know he’d love to play seniors, particularly being a game in Melbourne this weekend and we travel next weekend.

“To have his support network and his family that have been through so much with him at the game would be fantastic.”

North sits bottom of the ladder with a 2-17 record heading into the final three games of the season.

The Kangaroos will remember their 1996 premiership victory on Sunday with club greats gathering to celebrate the famous Grand Final win over Sydney.

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Accused killer in shooting death of Ipswich man Carlo Stewart granted bail, arguing self-defence

Accused killer in shooting death of Ipswich man Carlo Stewart granted bail, arguing self-defence

A man accused of killing another man after firing “10 shots in six seconds” during a violent brawl in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, has been released on bail after his lawyer told a court he was in fear of his life.

Carlo Stewart died in Ipswich Hospital after suffering two gunshot wounds on a North Booval street in July last year.

The 31-year-old was killed during an alleged altercation between two groups, sparked by stolen motorbikes.

Three people, including Tye Bickle, were charged with his murder as well as two counts of grievous bodily harm.

During a bail hearing for Mr Bickle in Brisbane on Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard the 29-year-old and two friends had planned to meet with Mr Stewart at one of their homes, but several other men had shown up “unexpectedly” and uninvited .

Mr Bickle’s lawyer Angus Edwards told the court the group, some of whom were partially disguised in masks and hoodies and armed with weapons, had quickly become threatening.

“They weren’t there to sell girl scout cookies they were there with violence on their minds,” Mr Edwards said.

“[Mr Stewart] is the most aggressive, he is the man who throws the first punch.

“Anyone would have been in fear of their lives.”

Police car at Baden Jones Way at North Booval on July 28, 2021, after shooting and street brawl
The court heard the accused and two friends had planned to meet with Mr Stewart at one of their homes.(ABC News: Michael Rennie)

Mr Edwards told the court his client had initially been unarmed and unaware his friend had a gun, but somehow gained possession of the weapon after that man was punched by Mr Stewart.

Mr Bickle then “fires 10 shots in 6 seconds”, but only after Mr Stewart attacked him with a bat, Mr Edwards said.

“A witness sees my client get hit in the head. And there’s no doubt that … because he ultimately had to get an operation — he had a fractured skull,” Mr Edwards said.

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Trump, Angry About 2020, Tries to Oust Robin Vos in Wisconsin

Trump, Angry About 2020, Tries to Oust Robin Vos in Wisconsin

BURLINGTON, Wis. — After months of toying with Robin Vos, who as the speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly is the most powerful Republican in state politics, former President Donald J. Trump endorsed Mr. Vos’s long-shot primary challenger on Tuesday in a futile effort to push the state’s Republicans to decertify the results of the 2020 election.

Mr. Trump backed Adam Steen, a largely unknown and underfunded far-right Republican who said he would aim to claw back the state’s 10 Electoral College votes from 2020 — a legal impossibility — and enact sweeping changes to the state’s voting laws.

Mr. Steen’s far-right views are not limited to elections. He is opposed to all abortions under any circumstances and he said in an interview on Monday that he would seek to make contraception illegal in Wisconsin.

“This is way deeper than a political discussion. This is a moral issue,” he said. “To me, you’re ending a life. Yes, I would definitely outlaw contraception.”

In his endorsement message, Mr. Trump blamed Mr. Vos for blocking efforts to conduct a “full cyber forensic audit” of the 2020 election and said he had “refused to do anything to right the wrongs that were done.”

“Speaker Vos had 17 years to prove to Wisconsin residents that he has their best interest in mind, but even in his own campaign efforts, Vos has tried to mislead his constituents, sending out mailers that feature a picture he took with me — trying to make voters believe I am a Vos supporter, which I am not,” Mr. Trump said. “I do not come close to supporting him.”

Mr. Steen, 38, is running on a platform that echoes the former president’s election grievances. He said that if Mr. Vos, who has been Wisconsin’s Assembly speaker for a decade, were removed from office, new leadership would be more amenable to holding a decertification vote, which Mr. Vos has blocked on grounds that it is impossible to decertify the results of a past election.

“I would have voted to pull back our electors because fraud vitiates everything,” Mr. Steen said in the interview on Monday, using a phrase common on the far right among those seeking to overturn past election results. “When you’re looking at the fact that we have an election that has lots of questions, I’d say, ‘Why, why?’ Could you tell me why Robin doesn’t want to look at it? I don’t know.”

Mr. Steen’s voting platform also includes limiting voting to a single day at in-person precincts. He said he would forbid all absentee and early voting except for a limited number of active military members and older adults who are confined to their homes.

Mr. Vos did not respond to interview requests. His spokeswoman said he would not be available to comment until after Wisconsin’s Aug. 9 primary.

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Telstra is giving away an Xbox Series S with 24 months of Game Pass with select Samsung phones

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Samsung released its new Samsung Galaxy S22 series of phones earlier this year, and according to our sibling site TechRadar, the premium model in that series—the Galaxy S22 Ultra—is the best Android phone of 2022. If you’ve got at least AU $1,249 to spare and don’t play nice with iPhones, chances are you’ll be looking at the Galaxy S22 range as your next phone. If that’s the case, Telstra has quite a generous deal kicking off tomorrow.

Starting Thursday, August 4 at 1am and lasting 23 hours, any Samsung Galaxy S22 series phone purchased on the Telstra Store will have an Xbox Series S bundled in. Not only that, but it’s a free Xbox All Access bundle, which comes with the console as well as 24 months of Game Pass Ultimate. In other words, spend at least AU$1,249 on a new phone, and get AU$792 worth of gaming goodness thrown in for free.

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Comanchero boss’s return to Australia set for delay

Comanchero boss's return to Australia set for delay

Mark Buddle has been arrested by the AFP after he was deported by Turkey.

Mark Buddle has been arrested by the AFP after he was deported by Turkey.

Ryan said Buddle had been a target of the AFP’s extensive Operation Gain since March 2021, with further arrests – of up to 20 others – expected to follow.

This includes Hakan Ayik, a Turkish national who recently renounced his Australian citizenship and is currently the subject of a global arrest notice.

“Today’s arrest is a significant blow against organized crime groups,” Ryan said.

“Australians who think they can hide offshore in perceived safe havens, peddling drugs into Australian communities, making huge illicit profits at the expense of Australian lives. Take this as a warning.”

Federal investigators in Australia began preparations for Buddle’s arrest in October 2021, presenting a full brief of evidence to the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions by January 2022.

In mid-July, Melbourne Magistrates’ Court issued an arrest warrant for the 37-year-old over his alleged involvement in the cocaine importation, and within weeks, Interpol had issued a red notice, a global alert, for his capture.

Mel Ter Wisscha says she has been separated from Buddle since last year.

Mel Ter Wisscha says she has been separated from Buddle since last year.Credit: Supplied

Buddle had been living in Northern Cyprus on a tourist visa since June last year before being arrested by Turkish authorities and taken to Ankara, where he has spent the past month.

The 37-year-old’s wife, Mel Ter Wisscha, has also been detained by Turkish authorities over visa issues. She told media outlets last month that the pair were separated and had not seen each other in more than a year.

Ryan said Turkish authorities then sported Buddle independently and accompanied him to Darwin.

“All the logistics were actually organized and arranged by the Turkish authorities,” he said.

“The Turkish authorities are regional leaders in relation to the fight against organized crime, and we thank them for their efforts.”

In June 2021, five people were arrested in connection to the importation of more than 160 kilograms of cocaine into Melbourne, including the alleged coordinator of the transnational organized crime syndicate, a 42-year-old Sydney man, and four Victorians.

At the time, federal police said the investigation into the importation came after intelligence confirmed large amounts of cocaine were set to arrive in Melbourne, via Sydney, from Hong Kong in late May 2021.

Federal police alleged a transnational criminal syndicate had been operating out of Hong Kong and Turkey, using encrypted communications to coordinate the shipment, estimated to be worth more than $40 million, via an onshore criminal syndicate leader in Sydney.

AFP seized 160 kilograms of cocaine during Operation Ironside in late May 2021.

AFP seized 160 kilograms of cocaine during Operation Ironside in late May 2021.

With the assistance of AFP officers, federal investigators intercepted and seized the cocaine, which had been concealed inside a shipment of air filters that arrived in Melbourne on May 31, 2021.

The Sydney man was charged with importing a commercial quantity of border-controlled drugs.

In Victoria, three men accused of playing a role in the collection and distribution of the cocaine shipment were arrested across Melbourne between June 4 and 6.

Mark Buddle (left) with fellow gang member Ali Bazzi in the Mediterranean.

Mark Buddle (left) with fellow gang member Ali Bazzi in the Mediterranean.

They were a 26-year-old Taylors Hill man, a 31-year-old Keilor East man and a 28-year-old St Kilda East man.

Search warrants were also executed in Taylors Hill, Keilor Park, Keilor East, Dandenong, Southbank, Point Cook and Laverton North, as well as in Leichhardt in NSW.

Buddle’s lawyer, Robert Welfare, declined to comment on the case when contacted on Wednesday.

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Suspect charged with hate crime for allegedly attacking Asian woman in NYC: Police

Suspect charged with hate crime for allegedly attacking Asian woman in NYC: Police

The suspect involved in an unprovoked attack on a 59-year-old Asian woman in New York City on Sunday has been arrested and charged with a hate crime, police said.

The NYPD arrested Anthony Evans, 30, on Tuesday in Manhattan and charged him with assault as a hate crime and criminal possession of a weapon.

The woman was pulling a shopping cart behind her when a man, believed to be Evans, approached her and sliced ​​her hand with a boxcutter on 42nd Street near Times Square before running off, police said.

The woman is so frightened by the attack that she won’t leave her home, she told ABC News New York station WABC, adding that the attack caused heavy bleeding.

PHOTO: Surveillance video shows the alleged assailant in an incident where a woman was slashed with a box cutter in an while she was walking in Midtown Manhattan, New York, July 31, 2022.

Surveillance video shows the alleged assailant in an incident where a woman was slashed with a box cutter in an while she was walking in Midtown Manhattan, New York, July 31, 2022.

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Year-to-date, hate crimes in New York City are up 13.3%, according to crime data from the NYPD.

On Sunday, a 70-year-old Asian woman was attacked by four people in the lobby of a San Francisco housing complex, according to the San Francisco Police Department.

The woman said the four suspects began talking to her but did not understand her because of a language barrier, the SFPD told ABC News.

The four suspects, described by cops as juveniles, followed her into the building, attacked her, stole her belongings and left the scene, police told ABC News.

The woman exclusively told ABC News San Francisco station KGO that the alleged assailants came back, attacked her and stole her keys.

Arrests have not been made and an investigation is ongoing, SFPD said in a statement.

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Venba, a video game about the emotional resonance of food | Games

Fgood is much more than mere sustenance. It’s an expression of love; for a culture, and for those eating. Venba isn’t so much a cooking game as it is a game about cooking – a narrative puzzle about restoring an old cookbook that made its way into the titular character’s hands. Venba is a Tamil woman who left India for Canada with her husband to start over; they’re already thinking about leaving her when she gets the news of her pregnancy from her. The very first dish you make in the game, a savory rice cake called idli, becomes a way for Venba to break the news to her husband de ella, a clever way to show how food can be part of any memory.

“Regardless of what’s happening on any particular day, the kitchen is always busy in south Asian homes,” says the lead designer, who goes by the name Abhi. “When kids grow up and assimilate [into a new culture]they may forget their mother tongue, but they never forget the food that’s cooked.”

Venba’s mother’s old cookbook is the key to each recipe you’ll try to recreate. Some instructions are smudged, or don’t make sense to someone unfamiliar with certain utensils or ingredients, so it’s on you to puzzle everything out. It’s an approach that fits the story Visai Games wanted to tell better than following a step-by-step recipe, says Abhi. “Venba feels a lot of guilt for moving away in the first place, and as her son de ella grows up rapidly assimilated, she doubles down on her roots de ella.”

The food in Venba will introduce a lot of players to Tamil culture, and so the recipes have to be representative, but still approachable even to people wholly unfamiliar with them. “We struggled with making a good puzzle out of these recipes quite a bit, initially,” Abhi says. “[South Asian] recipes are usually quite long and complicated and while it was technically possible to make puzzles out of them, it didn’t make for very fun gameplay. After a lot of research, I found that some recipes actually had puzzles built into them already – we just had to discover them and contextualize them properly.” Abhi uses the idlis as an example: in the game, Venba gets a few tools such as cloth and a steamer, as well as a drawing of what everything should look like once assembled correctly, but the correct order of the steps is left for players to figure out.

For Abhi, the key to a good food puzzle is finding a balance between accurately rendering real recipes while making them easy enough to understand and fun to play for a wide audience. “Play-testing these puzzles is also very challenging, as people who’ve cooked these recipes before come in with knowledge that makes solving them trivial,” he says. “But if I design it so it’s hard even for them, it’s going to be much, much harder for players who’ve never cooked like this!”

As much fun as these recipes are to figure out, Abhi stresses that cooking is work, and the juggling act between bringing up a child and the immigrant experience is core to Venba’s narrative. “Cooking in media is usually fun to watch, and in Venba too we’ve tried to really capture and impart how satisfying it can be to cook using art, sound and visual effects. But, sometimes, cooking is a chore and we also want players to feel that.”

Visai Studios aims for an enriching experience that both chronicles its characters’ struggles and teaches players about Tamil culture. It’s a bit sweet, a bit sour, but full of flavour.

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Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti are crowned the winners

Ekin-Su Cülcüloğlu and Davide Sanclimenti have been crowned the winners of Love Island UK 2022.

The couple, who declared their love for one another in an earlier episode, finished ahead of runners-up and fan favorites Gemma Owen and Luca Bish in the Grand Final.

As the results of the public vote were announced by host Laura Whitmore, Ekin-Su leapt into her Italian partner’s arms as they celebrated the news with their former castmates.

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“Thank you to everyone for voting for us, and thank you for making us who we are,” Ekin-Su said shortly after the results were announced.

“I can’t believe it. I think everyone is a winner in here, and I just feel really lucky to be here.”

“I didn’t expect it, I still don’t believe it,” Davide added with a smile on his face.

“We were all four great couples, but yeah… thank you for everyone…”

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“For going on our journey with us,” Ekin-Su chimed in, “It means so much.”

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The winners were revealed in an emotional and exciting moment. (Nine)

Laura also revealed there was a final twist in this year’s season, meaning the pair would automatically share the £50,000 [AUD $88,000] prize money instead of the usual “split or steal” format.

“The winning couple will split a huge £50,000 and this year we are not even asking them to choose between love and money,” she said at the start of the show.

Meanwhile, Indiyah Polack and Dami Hope came in third place, while Tasha Ghouri and Andrew Le Page finished fourth.

Fans of the show had a lot of thoughts and feelings about how the finale played out and took to Twitter to share their reactions.

Davide was the first Bombshell to arrive in the Villa, and was originally Coupled Up with Gemma Owen.

But when Ekin-Su arrived on the scene, his head was turned immediately and their romance journey soon began.

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Their love story wasn’t all smooth sailing, as Ekin-Su infamously enjoyed a cheeky kiss with Jay Younger by crawling across the balcony, while Davide’s head turned slightly in Casa Amor.

But soon enough, the pair realized they were made for each other and recently confirmed they were exclusive.

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Ekin-Su famously crawled along the floor to share a kiss with Jay Younger. (9Now)

After discovering they were in the final two, Ekin-Su and Davide sat down with Laura to discuss their romance journey.

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“As soon as I saw her [Ekin] my head turned, I was like wow. Initial attraction or something more,” he said.

They also touched on meeting each other’s parents during the final week, with Ekin-Su adding: “That was one those moments that was so special.

“I felt like this was my future mum, I felt so close to her even though we couldn’t speak the same language.”

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Maroons and Kangaroos prop Josh Papalii set to play for Samoa in Rugby League World Cup

Canberra Raiders prop Josh Papalii will represent Samoa in the upcoming World Cup, turning his back on the Kangaroos in a shock move.

It is arguably the most high-profile defection away from Mal Meninga’s team so far, with Papalii featuring in Australia’s last game against Tonga in 2019.

The 30-year-old played for Samoa in the 2017 World Cup, but that came after missing out on selection in the Kangaroos squad.

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This time around he was a certainty to be picked, and has instead taken matters into his own hands.

Last month, Brian To’o also said he would play for Samoa, despite being firmly in the conversation for Australian selection.

“As an older player, I feel like it’s a movement I just don’t want to be missing out on,” Papalii told reporters.

“Just seeing the likes of a few of the Penrith boys coming out and I’ve had few text messages from other players who haven’t come out yet saying they’ve put their hand up for Samoa.

“I have put my hand up to play for Samoa. Mal Meninga knows that and I’ve had a coffee with Mal as well to speak about what I’m planning to do… but that’s a long way from here, anything can happen in the next hopefully eight weeks.”

The growing trend of Pacific Islands players electing to represent their nation of heritage exploded before the previous World Cup, when Jason Taumalolo withdrew from New Zealand’s World Cup squad to represent Tonga instead.

There are plenty of others who’ve donned blue, maroon, or green and gold jerseys in the past who will be plying their trade elsewhere in the October tournament.

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Former Kangaroos Andrew Fifita and Alex Johnston are likely to suit up for Tonga and Papua New Guinea, respectively, while plenty of others are yet to make calls on their international future.

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