LTD sales figures as of the end of September:
Nintendo Wii
--Hardware
--Worldwide Total: 56.14m
--Japan: 8.68m
--Americas: 25.99m
--Other: 21.48m
Software
--Worldwide Total: 429.23m
--Japan: 39.32m
--Americas: 234.41m
--Other: 155.50m
Nintendo DS
--Hardware
--Worldwide Total: 113.48m (10.17m of which are from Nintendo DSi)
--Japan: 28.12m (3.73m of which are from Nintendo DSi)
--Americas: 39.35m (3.27m of which are from Nintendo DSi)
--Other: 46.01m (3.17m of which are from Nintendo DSi)
Software
--Worldwide Total: 638.07m
--Japan: 162.69m
--Americas: 237.06m
--Other: 238.32m
New forecast for the fiscal year (units):
Nintendo DS
--Software: 150m (revised down from 180m).
--Hardware: 30m (unchanged).
Nintendo Wii
--Software: 180m (revised down from 220m).
--Hardware: 20m (revised down from 26m).
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TOKYO, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Nintendo Co Ltd reported a 59 percent decline in first-half profit on Thursday, hurt by sluggish demand for its flagship Wii videogame console and the strong yen, and it slashed its full-year forecast.
Nintendo, which faces stiff competition in the videogame market from Sony Corp and Microsoft Corp, said operating profit was 104.4 billion yen ($1.2 billion) in the April-September half, compared with 252.2 billion yen a year earlier.
Nintendo cut its operating profit forecast for the year to March 2010 by nearly a quarter to 370 billion yen, ending a three-year run during which it booked a record profit on booming demand for its Wii console and DS portable device.
That compares with an average estimate of 442.8 billion yen in a poll of 25 analysts by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Demand for Nintendo products like the Wii has cooled as rival Sony has bolstered its line-up of console games, and as Apple Inc's iPhone has become a popular platform for handheld games.
Nintendo's earnings, like those of other Japanese exporters, have also been blunted by the stronger yen JPY=, which eats into overseas profits. Shares of Nintendo have declined about 28 percent so far this year, compared with a 14 percent rise in the Nikkei 225 .N225 share average.
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKT30590220091029
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2009/091029e.pdf
