Nintendo made $1.2 billion profit in 3 months

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I agree with Shams here -- I'm not sure why growth would slow.

They'll sell about as much hardware next year as this year -- perhaps more, we'll see -- and will sell considerably more software simply because the install bases have grown.

Why would profits stop growing? The next time I expect profits to shrink is 09, when the DS is slowing down and a successor is on the way late in the 09 year or in 2010.  Hardware transitions will slow down profits. Not actually cause losses -- Nintendo is always careful to avoid that -- but certainly slow profits down.