Somewhat unsurprisingly, to regular industry watchers, Nintendo’s net profits grew 77.2% to 174.3bn yen (£731m) in the 2006/2007 financial year to 31 March, while sales increased 90%.
To say “its been a rather good year” for the Japanese videogaming giant would be something of an understatement.
We all know the reason for this of course. 23 million DS’s have been sold over the last year alone across Planet Earth along with a staggering 123 million DS games.
“Since launch, the Nintendo DS has now sold more than 40 million systems worldwide,” Nintendo UK's ebullient PR Manager Rob Saunders just informed us, “it's very satisfying and we've worked extremely hard as a company to achieve such positive results.”
Wii-wise, the company has already shifted 5.84 million globally, along with nearly 29 million Wii games. It’s fair to say that Nintendo can't produce Wii quickly enough.
In terms of the coming financial year (which began on April 1, 2007) Nintendo projects overall sales of 14 million Wii systems and 55 million Wii games worldwide, plus an additional 22 million Nintendo DS hardware unit sales and 130 million DS game sales. Nintendo forecasts consolidated sales increasing nearly 18 percent to 1.14 trillion yen, and operating profits growing nearly 20 percent to 270 billion yen.
To say “its been a rather good year” for the Japanese videogaming giant would be something of an understatement.
We all know the reason for this of course. 23 million DS’s have been sold over the last year alone across Planet Earth along with a staggering 123 million DS games.
“Since launch, the Nintendo DS has now sold more than 40 million systems worldwide,” Nintendo UK's ebullient PR Manager Rob Saunders just informed us, “it's very satisfying and we've worked extremely hard as a company to achieve such positive results.”
Wii-wise, the company has already shifted 5.84 million globally, along with nearly 29 million Wii games. It’s fair to say that Nintendo can't produce Wii quickly enough.
In terms of the coming financial year (which began on April 1, 2007) Nintendo projects overall sales of 14 million Wii systems and 55 million Wii games worldwide, plus an additional 22 million Nintendo DS hardware unit sales and 130 million DS game sales. Nintendo forecasts consolidated sales increasing nearly 18 percent to 1.14 trillion yen, and operating profits growing nearly 20 percent to 270 billion yen.
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OptimusP 26 Apr 2007 14:04
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That's one awesome attach ratio...offcourse, are those Nintendo-only published games or do they count all the Wii-games for ease?
Hypnotoad 27 Apr 2007 00:42
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You know the sound where Sideshow Bob steps on the rake? I'm making that sound now...