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Nintendo has reported today that their business has grown fully 17% over the same period last year in the face of a waning global economy and an unreasonably strong yen (which tends to curb foreign consumption). Most interesting, the report included figures for total console and software shipments to date. The Nintendo DS has shipped 96.22 million worldwide, and more than 533 million games. The Wii has shipped 45 million worldwide, and over 312 million games. Wii Fit and Mario Kart Wii have shipped an outlandish 14 million and 13.67 million, respectively.
Press Release: January 28, 2009 – Despite nearly unprecedented strength of the yen against major foreign currencies, Nintendo Co., Ltd. on Thursday (Japan time) reported 9-month (April to December 2008) global sales of 1,536 billion yen, an increase of nearly 17% over the same period in 2007, along with 501 billion yen of operating profits, up 27% from a year ago. This marks the fourth consecutive year that Nintendo Co., Ltd. has exceeded the previous results for the same nine month period. At the same time, recurring and net profits for the same nine month periods each declined about 18% due to 174 billion yen of foreign currency reevaluation losses from assets held in currencies other than Japanese yen (such as bank deposits without forward exchange contracts). For the full fiscal year ending March 31, 2009, the company revised its unit sales forecast for the portable Nintendo DS™ system upward by 3% to 31.5 million globally, while the DS software forecast was lowered by 7% to 193 million. For the Wii™ system, with softness in the Japanese consumer market, full year global unit sales estimates for both hardware and software were revised downward by 3%, to 26.5 million systems and 193 million games, respectively, in spite of the overall robust sales outside Japan. As a result, and with the changes in the anticipated foreign currency exchange ratios, Nintendo Co., Ltd. has revised estimates for fiscal sales and profit projections for the full year ending March 31, 2009. However, the company remained on pace to set historic records for Net Sales and Operating Profit for the full 12 month period. Other highlights announced by Nintendo today include the following cumulative shipment figures from launch through the end of December 2008:
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