Which is simply not gonna happen.

Even if Japan goes totally crazy on the point of 3DS there's still a matter of lackluster western performance after price drop.

And it's unknown how much 3DS sales will be lost to Vita in initial months.

That 12.93 is a little high, I think they said they shipped 6.63 from apr-sept so a little less than 10 mil between sept and mar

There is just no way that they will make their Wii or 3DS numbers for the rest of the year.

So basically they missed their numbers for the last 2 quarters and are going to miss again next quarters...

Seriously, how bad can you be at predicting your own business ?

3DS launch was last fiscal year.  They shipped 0.71 million in Q1 and 2.36 million in Q2.

What I've always wondered is why Nintendo( or any other Japanese company) don't just keep there regional earnings in said region and avoid these currency exchange issues. What, they don't trust westerners or somethin?

And VGC is undertracking 3ds sales by ~1mil? Because that 6.68 numbers is sold not shipped. ( assuming they would have used the word shipped).

It's shipped.  It's always shipped unless they directly cite media create/NPD/GFK/Chart-Track/etc.

Isn't it the other way around? Nintendo's results are in Yen, so if the Yen goes up, they will get more Yen out of each dollar they receive from the US and therefore post better results IN YEN.
If the Yen, on the other hand, got stronger (ie appreciated versus the dollar) then each dollar they receive will translate in less Yen and therefore the results posted will be worse IN YEN.

Of course here we are ignoring the local economic factors of Japan like inflation, recession, tax adjustments, minimum wage fluctuations, etc.

The actual problem of the Yen is that it is getting stronger, so when they receive dollars, each dollar gets converted into less Yen than before. Their results never mention dollars or euros, so as long as they get more Yen out of any of the other foreign currencies, they will be posting better results for the same amount of incoming foreign cash.

These numbers would be absolutely unbelieveable only a couple of years back. Let's hope they make the 3DS profitable very soon!

Yes I don't think Sony is going to post a profit either, all Japanese companies are hurting at the moment with the strong Yen.

So Nintendo only expect to ship another 3.4 million DS' in the next 6 months? The channel must be horrendously overstuffed because there's almost no way it's going to sell-through that little unless Nintendo discontue it before the end of the year.