“Nintendogs has become like gold dust across Europe with stocks flying off shelves as soon as they arrive in store,” a Nintendo statement claimed. “Not only does Nintendo continue to make the best-selling handheld machines on the market, it is also expanding the gaming audience with total portable video game machines sales increasing year on year.”
For the company as a whole, the picture was less positive, however, as results for the six months ending September 30th revealed that Nintendo suffered a 21.1 per cent drop in profits compared with the same period last year.
Net income for the period was $308.1m, down from $390.7m, whilst sales dropped 6.2 per cent to $1.49bn. Nintendo also lowered its DS sales estimate from 12.4m units to 12m and its GameCube estimate from 2.8m to 2.4m, though it does expect better Game Boy Advance sales than before, upping the estimate from 10.2m to 11m.
However, speaking exclusively to MCV, Nintendo UK boss David Yarnton stated that in this territory DS was set to beat the firm’s own bullish sales predictions. “We said we’d do a million DS units this year – we’ll now probably exceed that number,” he said.
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