For the first time in several years, the Japanese console giant Nintendo is struggling with declining sales. Sales of Nintendo have dropped in the last fiscal year by about 22 percent.
The profit of the company also edged down by around 18 percent, at least another 2.5 billion U.S. dollars, as reported computerworld.com. Nintendo’s fiscal year begins in April and ends in March the following year. Now the figures presented thus relate to the period April 2009 to March 2010. Especially in the early months, therefore, Nintendo had to struggle with weak sales of the Wii console.
With a price reduction of about 20 percent were under the statute of the sales but are stabilized. Overall, Nintendo Wii sell 20.5 million consoles. Compared with the previous year, this represents a decrease of about 6 million copies. Even with the sales of the Nintendo DS Nintendo had to complain declines. A total of 27.1 million DS consoles are with about 13 percent less than previously sold. Decline was also the software business for Nintendo. The Wii’s sales worldwide went up 6, back in the DS even by 23 percent.
While the figures for the Wii this year will probably not develop to the top, the portable Nintendo DS console relies entirely on the new 3D Model 3DS, based on the E3 exhibition presents soon be taking place and then appear later this year and the DS aims to boost sales significantly. Nevertheless, Nintendo expects that sales will fall in the coming year. The Japanese console manufacturer goes out of his plans about 12 percent.