Nintendo`s business year ended. How did 3DS fare?

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RolStoppable said:

It's more like the people here don't realize how many millions of software units are on store shelves at any given time. While for the hardware the range usually is between one and two million units, software should be multiple times more than that as anyone who goes into stores every now and then should know. In a big store you see dozens of consoles stacked up along with hundreds of games, unless there are any kind of shortages.

Since the profit margins for retailers are higher on software, it shouldn't be hard to believe that they want to keep their shelves filled at any given time. Ten million games sitting on store shelves worldwide should be pretty normal for any reasonably popular video game system.

EDIT: And the AR games and Face Raiders most certainly don't count, because they aren't actual software units, but preinstalled on the hardware.

The source in the link clearly states that bundled software is included in Nintendo's forecast, although it is possible they mean something other than pre-installed games by that... (I have no idea what it could be if that is the case..)

I definitely agree with you regarding the profit margins on games though.