Topic: Nintendo Releases End of Year Financial Report

[NWR_insanolord]

3DS has sold 3.61 million units, but overall profits are down 52 percent.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/26143

Nintendo has released its financial report on the fiscal year ending March 31, 2011. During that year, Nintendo sold 17.52 million DS systems and 15.08 million Wiis, increasing the lifetime sales of those platforms to 146.42 million and 86.01 million, respectively. In the short time the 3DS was available during this period Nintendo sold 3.61 million units of the new handheld.

120.98 million units of of DS software were sold last year, as well as 171.26 million units on Wii and 9.43 million 3DS titles. The number of million sellers on DS increased from 114 to 139, and Wii now has 103 titles with over a million sales, up from 79. Even in its short time on the market, the 3DS had two titles sell a million units.

Nintendo profits, however, are down 52 percent from the previous year. Nintendo attributes this drop to declining sales and poor exchange rates. Sales were down in all regions, but especially in the United States, which saw record DS and Wii sales in December 2009.

Nintendo forecasts sales of 11 million DS units, 13 million Wiis and 16 million 3DS systems in the upcoming fiscal year, and specifically points out that they have no projections for the recently announced follow-up to the Wii before the end of the current fiscal year, March 31, 2012.

[Ceric]

Hardware:

System	Fiscal Year	Lifetime
NDS	17.52 Million	146.42 Million
Wii	15.08 Million	86.01 Million
3DS	3.61 Million	3.61 Million

Software:

System	Fiscal Year	Million Sellers
NDS	120.98 Million	139
Wii	171.26 Million	103
3DS	9.43 Million	2

Forecast:

System	Next Fiscal Year
NDS	11 Million
Wii	13 Million
3DS	16 Million
"recently announced follow-up to the Wii "	No Projection

Be nice to have a list of all the Million sellers.
 
Fun with Numbers:
For every 1 NDS sold their was ~7 NDS Games sold last Fiscal Year
For every 1 Wii sold their was ~11 Wii Games sold last Fiscal Year
For every 1 3DS sold their was ~3 3DS Games sold Last Fiscal Year

Pure mathematically the last fiscal year (keeping everything to minutes):
Hardware:
~33 NDS sold every Minute
~28 Wii's sold every Minute
~7 3DS sold every Minute

Software:
~230 DS games per Minute
~326 Wii Games per Minute
~18 3DS Games per Minute

For the Forecast they're giving:
Hardware Forecast:
~21 NDS sold every Minute
~25 Wii sold every Minute
~30 3DS sold every Minute

[leahsdad]

In the short time the 3DS was available during this period Nintendo sold 3.61 million units of the new handheld.

I think their goal (I can't remember if this was their sales goal or their production goal) was 4 million units. 


Still, not bad, especially considering I saw fewer commercials for the 3DS than the Kinect (or even some games...the Marketing for Homefront and Black Ops was crazy).  I doubt if NOA's marketing budget was even half of...what was it, $500 million for the Kinect at launch?