Nintendo can thank its sale of the Seattle Mariners for even gloomier financial reading -- it helped to boost its income for the quarter. Mentions of Pokemon Go are conspicuously absent in the financial report, but Nintendo says it earned 12 billion yen from affiliate companies, including Niantic Labs that made the smartphone game.

The company notes in its own report that Wii U hardware sales down over 50 percent since the same period last year. In the company's words: "There were no hit titles this period to compare with Splatoon and Super Mario Maker last year." Well, that's just sad.

At this point, it's fascinating to see the gap between both Nintendo's home consoles and its portables compared to the generation that came before it. The Wii U has now sold 13.36 million units, but in its lifetime, the Wii sold almost 102 million units. Likewise, while the 3DS might be a hit in comparison to the poor Wii U, compared to the DS, hardware sales aren't even half as good: 61.6 million versus 154 million. The 3DS is now over five years old.