The company increases manufacturing resources for the DS and prepares for Revolution.
According to Asia Pulse (via Yahoo! News), Nintendo Co. Ltd. is preparing to increase its capital spending by 76% this year, mostly for the purpose of fortifying Nintendo DS manufacturing capacities. The DS has been virtually sold out since its debut in both North America and Japan, and the handheld will launch in Europe and Australia this spring.
Nintendo is also boosting R&D spending by 39% over last year, up to 22 billion yen. The R&D department is responsible for designing new consoles and other hardware.
Spending for R&D and advertising combined will increase by a total of 5 billion yen over previous targets.