Nintendo France released LTD hardware sales for DS/Wii in France upto end of 2007. Wii - 1.28 million units DS - 4.4 million units Numbers from market tracker Gfk.
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"Wedbush's Michael Pachter believes Nintendo's updated guidance is still too conservative. He thinks the Wii could sell another million units beyond Nintendo's target. He also thinks DS software estimates remain too low."
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Nintendo Q1 net profit increased 416% from same period last year to 80.25 billion yen (~$662 million). Wii shipment target increased from 14 million to 16.5 million for year ending March '08. Operating income in the fiscal first quarter more than tripled to 90.63 billion yen from 28.80 billion previously, while revenue expanded 160 percent to 340.44 billion yen from 130.9 billion the year before. Nintendo said global sales for its Nintendo DS dual-screen portable game consoles reached 6.98 million in the April-June quarter, from 4.54 million the year before. The company also delivered 3.43 million Wii consoles in the past quarter.
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The latest issue of Euro mag NGamer has a rumor that both Animal Crossing Wii and Punch-Out!! Wii will be revealed at next week's E3. The mag states (via N-Europe) that Animal Crossing Wii has been done for a while and, although not an MMO, uses Wi-Fi sharing. Punch-Out!! Wii can allegedly use the Wii Fit Balance Board for dodging as an option, while the rest of the gameplay will be similar to Wii Sports boxing or Wii Fit's Rhythm Boxing.
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If you're a Nintendo fan, you should know the development studio Camelot Software Planning. The Japanese videogame maker has created a number of hits throughout the years, from Mario Golf and Mario Tennis to Shining Force and Golden Sun. Now, it's just wrapped up the American version of We Love Golf, which looks to be Wii's defining golf game. We recently sat down with Camelot heads Hiroyuki and Shugo Takahashi, two brothers well-versed in the arts of both making games and working with Nintendo.
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Officials from Nintendo of America have claimed that the company has sold more Nintendo products in the first week of the 2007 Christmas shopping season than at any other time in its history. For the seven days from Sunday, November 18th to Saturday November 24th (including Black Friday on November 23rd) the company claims that more than 653,000 Nintendo DS, 350,000 Wii and “millions of games and accessories” were sold throughout the U.S.
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The results showed that 69 percent recognised the world's most famous plumber, although only 53 percent could name Paris Hilton, and 51 percent recognised Justin Timberlake.
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From September 1st Nintendo Australia will be officially taking over product distribution and advertisement in the New Zealan. If you have not been following, Nintendo has had a rough trot in New Zealand with their most recent distributor going broke. This, of course, followed years of neglect for Nintendo products in the country which has led to New Zealand being one of only a few country in the world where the Wii has not done as well.
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"Nintendo of America head Reggie Fils-Aime has said that his competitors are in a bad situation where they lose money and produce machines that are hard to develop for."
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Japanese economic news source Nikkei.Net is reporting what most of us already know: big third party publishers are shifting their focus from Sony Computer Entertainment to Nintendo Co., Ltd. With the DS and the Wii doing major business, this shift should not come as a surprise. The article points out that Bandai Namco and Sega have doubled the amount of Nintendo-geared software during fiscal 2007 compared to the previous year. Likewise, Capcom has slated more games for Nintendo than for Sony. Though, companies haven't ditched the PLAYSTATION 3 by any means and are developing big games for SCE. Lower than expected PS3 sales and high development costs are just a deterrent, but things could change. Eventually, even!
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