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