Wii's sales volume is 5,840,000, Nintendo's sales exceed 1 trillion yen

According to the financial results announced in the fiscal year ended March 2007 released by Nintendo, the next generation game machine "Wii" sold 5.84 million units worldwide and "Nintendo DS" also sold 23 million units, Net sales increased by 89.8% from the previous year to 966.5 billion yen, ordinary profit increased 79.7% to 288.8 billion yen, net income increased 77.2% to 174.2 billion yen It is said that.

Unfortunately production can not catch up, and the forecasted sales volume of Wii isIt did not arrive slightly to 6 million units originally anticipatedHowever, in response to the demand of Wii and Nintendo DS, Nintendo anticipates that sales will exceed 1 trillion yen in the fiscal year ending March 2008.

By the way, it was revealed that not only hardware but also software also sold a tremendous number in the accounts report. Moreover, it is amazing that even software like something not very popular in Japan is selling quite a number in the world.

Details are as follows.
(PDF file)Financial results for the fiscal year ended March 2007

According to this account report, Wii has sold 5.84 million units in five months, it said that Nintendo DS sold 23 million units worldwide (cumulative sales volume is 40 million) worldwide.

In the year under review, 9.5 million copies of "New Super Mario Bros." were sold, and 8.08 million copies of "DS training for adults who train the brain" were sold over the course of one year, and "Nintendogs" continued to sell particularly overseas and sold 695 million copies, and "Pokemon Diamond / Pearl "has sold 5.21 million in spite of not being released overseas. It is amazing.

Although Nintendo has made cards and karuta as well as game machines, its sales are said to be 2.1 billion yen.