Details from Nintendo’s third-quarter financial results
Posted on January 30, 2013 by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Podcast Stories, Wii, Wii U
Nintendo published its latest financial results earlier today. While Big N did return to profitability, it was forced to negatively revise forecasts.
Read on below for a summary of Nintendo’s latest financials. Note that each figure below accounts for sales received between April to December of last year.
– Net income of 14,545 million (around $159m)
– Net sales estimates for the full year revised down by 17.3%
– Wii U has sold 3.06 million units worldwide as of December 2012
– 1.32 million consoles sold in North America
– Another 900,000 units sold in Europe
– 830,000 systems sold in Japan
– Wii sold 3.53 million units from April to December
– Nintendo has previously stated that it aims to sell 5.5 million Wii Us before the end of March, but it has now revised this target to 4 million
– New estimate for game sales: 16 million as opposed to the original 24 million
– 11.69 million games have been sold thus far
– Best-selling Wii U launch game was Nintendo Land
– Nintendo Land sold 2.33 million units
– 3DS sales saw a big increase
– Software sales up 41% year-on-year
– Hardware sales up 11%
