Once again, Nintendo has raised their financial predictions after a year-to-year profit increase of 77.2 percent because of Wii and DS sales.
This year’s forecast has been increased by almost 20 percent with sales expected to reach 270 billion YEN (last year’s profit was 174.3 billion YEN). Sales of DS hardware have been more than 23 million during the year with software sales at 123 million. Wii now stands at 5.84 million units sold with 29 million games sold. Predictions for DS hardware sales are now at 22 million units with the Wii expected to sell 14 million units this fiscal year.
