While other gaming Web sites rushed to blast out the news of Nintendo's profits more than doubling this year, we here at Destructoid took our sweet ass time with it, saving it for the mid-afternoon, post-lunch blah time slot. How's that for service?
So yeah, Nintendo made more money -- big surprise, right? Actually, the numbers are pretty impressive. Riding on the back of Wii and the DS, Nintendo has managed to double up in a a half year's time, jumping from 54.3 billion yen to 132.4 billion yen. That's over a 130 percent increase! Operating profit shot straight up from last year's 67.1 billion to 188.8 billion yen. "Printing money" is so yesterday: Nintendo is money.
How exactly did they get there? It's easy: they moved 65.81 million Wii consoles and 259.48 million Nintendo DS units. If you sell that many of anything (sponges, paperclips), you'll be sitting pretty, but selling $250 game consoles and actually making a profit does wonders, eh?
As we guessed they would yesterday, Nintendo raised its full year forecast numbers, aiming for 1.5 trillion yen (USD 13.1 billion) in net sales. Yes, I said "trillion."
[Via Next-Gen]
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2:58 PM on 10.25.2007
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I'm lying about that, obviously, but one does have to wonder what good uses they're going to put all this cash towards.
I remember that time.
Who's laughing now?
I'm still tired of Reggie. If he's the face of Nintendo, then Nintendo's ass ugly. And his comments are ass, too. He never says anything that doesn't end with him looking like a jerk ass or a fucking hypocrite.
Nintendo revealed its official worldwide hardware sales.
DS hardware - sold 13.35 million sales in the last six months
Japan: 19.71 million
North America: 16.06 million
Worldwide: 17.88
Total: 53.64 million
Wii hardware - sold 7.33 million in the last six months
Japan: 3.67 million
North America: 5.46 million
Worldwide: 4.04 million
Total: 13.17 million
Wii software: 65.81 million
Mario Party 8 alone selling 2.89 million copies.
DS Software: 259.48 million sales
Top sellers among its games are Pokemon Diamond and Pokemon Pearl, with combined sales now at 12.17 million copies worldwide since their launch. Brain Age 1 and Brain Age 2 sold at a larger total of 17.19 million copies.
Come the end of this fiscal year, Nintendo predict its net sales to be at 1.55 trillion (US$ 13.59 billion) with a net income of ¥ 275.0 billion (US .41 billion).
http://wii.qj.net/
Don't spread MORE wrong information!
The Wii has moved ~65 million units of SOFTWARE, which has just been misquoted in this article to say "consoles" (also, the DS sold ~259 million SOFTWARE units as well.)
The Wii has sold about 12-13 million total CONSOLES depending on who you talk to or what figures you go by. I'm pretty sure it just recently (like in the last few days) just topped the 360 in total sales.
C'mon Dale! Edit this so there's not as much confusion.
Queue Green Day song...
I'm still hoping Sega says "Surprise bitches!" and drops a new console outa no where.
sorry, i was just going what the article said, i stand corrected
I forgive you =-)
Actually, I was in the same boat as you when I first read that. I thought to myself "my god... Nintendo IS taking over the world!" and then I realized that it took the PS2 5 years to hit a 100 million and figured out those numbers would have to be CRAZY to be true.
Also, I'd refuse to believe a system had sold that many units without me owning one ;)