Nintendo has revealed that download sales in the first half of this fiscal year have be higher than any other fiscal period for the company.

In the past, Nintendo President & CEO Satoru Iwata has expressed his feelings on the importance of expanding their digital business sector as being requirement to adapt to the market fluctuations and to create new business opportunities. So far, as illustrated by the graphs below provided by Nintendo, it is clear to see that Mr. Iwata’s efforts have been an overall success.

As depicted in the graph showing the transitions of download sales until the last fiscal year, sales were slow in the fiscal years ended in March 2011 and 2012. As communicated in the Financial Results Briefing in April, however, the sales in the last fiscal year more than doubled those of the previous year and were our highest ever. Nintendo’s digital performance only continued to get much better.

Satoru Iwata: \”The download sales in the first half of this fiscal year reached 11.4 billion yen, which is more than double the figure in the first half of the previous year and surpassed that of the second half.\”

Mr. Iwata added that digital download sales of retail software represented made up half of these earnings while download-only type digital sales have also risen steadily.

As a result of the efforts the corporations has made over the last two years, they are confident that their digital business has finally entered a phase of expansion.

Nintendo has recently released an updated release schedule consisting of more games that will undoubtedly be available through the Nintendo eShop so it will be interesting to see how Nintendo performs for the next fiscal quarter.