Nintendo of America Inc. was ordered to pay a $21 million for infringing on a patent while designing controllers for its popular Wii and GameCube systems. Nintendo said the company will seek an appeal and expects the court to reduce the award "significantly." Nintendo was pleased no infringement was found with the motion-sensing technology used in its wandlike Wii and Nuncheck controllers, which mimic movements by users in games such as tennis and boxing.
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"Nintendo of Europe has announced eight launch window games scheduled to accompany and follow the release of Nintendo’s WiiWare channel on May 20th: Dr. Mario & Germ Buster (Nintendo) Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King (Square Enix) Lost Winds (Frontier) Pirates: The Key of Dreams (Oxygen Interactive) Pop (Nnooo) Star Soldier R (Hudson Soft) Toki Tori (Two Tribes) TV Show King (Gameloft)
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DS: Nintendogs - 18.67m Pokémon Diamond/Perl - 14.77m New Super Mario Bros. - 14.16m Brain Age - 12.98m Brain Age 2 - 10.83m Mario Kart DS - 10.45m Animal Crossing: Wild World - 9.53m Super Mario 64 DS - 6.12m Big Brain Acadmey - 5.01m The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass - 4.13m Mario Parts DS - 3.62m Yoshi´s Island DS - 2.91m Pokémon Ranger - 2.70m Flash Focus - 2.52m Pokémon Mystery Dungeon 2 - 1.58m
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While Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei Stock Average of 225 companies has fallen nearly 25 percent in the past two years, Nintendo's stock price has tripled. When the company reports earnings April 24 for the year ended March 31, the results are expected to show similarly strong growth in profit and revenue. Analysts estimate Nintendo will sell an additional 26 million consoles in the current fiscal year as it increases production.
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"The next game from Blue Dragon and Blinx developer Artoon will be for the Wii. Japanese publisher AQ Interactive announced today The World of Golden Eggs: Nori Nori Rhythm-kei for the Japanese Wii, and Artoon is listed as the developer."
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Ahead of Nintendo's Q3 report expected January 24th, Wedbush Morgan's Michael Pachter has predicted the company will report sales of ¥565 billion ($5.28b), and, despite a conservative outlook, will raise full fiscal 2008 sales guidance ahead of the current ¥1,550 billion ($14.5b). "Although the company faces some headwind with the strengthening of the Yen," he concluded, "we believe the insatiable demand for Nintendo hardware to continue to fuel upside."
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"Nintendo's fiscal year may not end until March, but with the year the company's been having chances are pretty good that the company could be announcing that they expect to do better than predicted in January. That's what happened at the beginning of this year and if doesn't happen again at the beginning of next year there's a chance that investors could be a little ticked, according to an anonymous Nintendo Stock Blogger."
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"Considering all the success the Wii has seen in North America, is it time for Nintendo to increase its Western development. No, says senior vp George Harrison."
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We had to make our final decision on how much to produce each month for the holidays back in the summer. We�re at a rate now worldwide of about 1.8 million Wiis produced every month, and that�s going to sustain itself until we get on top of this. ... . Each territory is doing the best they can to increase the sales for Wii and then fighting for the share of the available production...
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Nintendo's financial report, ending Sept. 30, places 53.64 million DS/DS Lite and 13.17 million Wii sold worldwide. Tie ratios: 4.997 for Wii (counting Wii Sports), 4.837 for DS. This puts the Wii at more than half GameCube sales and roughly half its tie-in after less than a year. English translation of the sales table and further Gaf analysis available lower in the thread.
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