– Total sales – 363,160 million yen (down 33.7% from 548,058 million yen for the six months ended September 30, 2009)
– Operating earnings of 54,232 million yen (down 48% from the previous 104,360 million yen)
– Nintendo blames low performance for an appreciating yen
– Net loss of 2,011 million yen.
– Nintendo attributes this to a 62,100 million yen foreign currencies exchange loss
– Pokemon Black/White: 4.07 million units through the end of September
– Super Mario Galaxy 2’s: 5.1 million unit sales worldwide
– Wii Party: one million units in Japan following
– DS sold 6.69 million units (down from the 11.7 million of the same six month period in 2009)
– DS software down from 71.15 million to 54.84 million
– Wii sold 4.97 million units over the period (down from the 5.75 million of 2009)
– Wii software down from 76.21 million to 65.21 million
– LTD DS hardware sales: 135.58 million units
– LTD DS software sales: 773.34 million units
– Wii LTD hardware sales: 75.9 million
– Wii LTD software sales: 610.04 million unit
– Nintendo expecting sales of 1,100,000 million yen for the year (would be a decrease of 23.3% from last year)
– Operating earnings of 210,000 million yen expected (41.1% drop from last year)
– Nintendo expecting 23.5 million DS systems sold, 125 million DS games (includes 3DS)
– Nintendo expecting 17.5 million Wii systems sold, 138 million DS games
– Nintendo expecting to sell 4 million 3DS hardware systems and 15 million pieces of software
Thanks to Thomas N for the tip!
