Nintendo Co. said Thursday its group sales more than doubled in the year ended March, topping 1 trillion yen ($9.1 billion) for the first time in seven years, amid continuing strong demand for the Switch game console.

The Kyoto-based company also announced Managing Executive Officer Shuntaro Furukawa, 46, will succeed President Tatsumi Kimishima effective June 28, pending shareholder approval, in a move to rejuvenate its management.

The company's net profit in fiscal 2017 rose 36.1 percent from a year earlier to 139.59 billion yen, while operating profit jumped six-fold to 177.56 billion yen on sales of 1.06 trillion yen.

It shipped 15.05 million units of the Switch, a hybrid device that can be played plugged into a TV or taken on the road using a built-in display.

(New Nintendo President Shuntaro Furukawa [L] with predecessor Tatsumi Kimishima.)

The novel design and popularity of software titles such as "Super Mario Odyssey," which has sold 10.41 million copies since its release in October, contributed to continuing demand for the Switch, released in March last year.

Kimishima, 68, was a banker before joining Nintendo in 2002 and spent a decade heading the company's North America unit. He took the company's helm in 2015 after then-President Satoru Iwata died of cancer.

He has been credited with turning around a business suffering from competition from mobile gaming and the poor performance of the Switch's predecessor, the Wii U.

(Nintendo Switch sold more than 15 million units in fiscal 2017.)

Furukawa, a quiet figure amid a cast of creative giants such as Mario-creator Shigeru Miyamoto, will be tasked with ensuring that the Switch continues to succeed and Nintendo's mobile gaming efforts gain traction.

For the current business year, Nintendo expects net profit to rise 18.2 percent to 165 billion yen and operating profit to climb 26.7 percent to 225 billion yen on sales of 1.2 trillion yen, up 13.7 percent.

The company earlier this month launched its Labo line of cardboard toys that can be combined with the Switch. It hopes this, as well as several big titles slated to come out this year, including new entries in the popular "Mario Tennis" and "Super Smash Bros." series, will help it hit its Switch sales goal of 20 million units.