Nintendo Q4 Report. Wii 20+ Million LTD

[Aeron]

During the nine-month period ended December 31, 2007, "Nintendo DS", our handheld gaming system, continued to enjoy robust sales worldwide, selling a total of 24.5 million units (64.79 million units life-to-date). DS software had favorable performance in sales as well, led by new titles of "The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass" and "Mario Party DS" as well as "Pokémon Diamond" and "Pokémon Pearl" and "Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day" which were launched overseas during this period. In addition, a number of long-term selling titles such as "Nintendogs" and "New Super Mario Bros." recorded strong sales.

In our console business, "Wii" hardware reached total sales of 14.29 million units worldwide for the first three quarters of the year and exceeded 20 million units in life-to-date sales, which is slightly over one year. "Wii" software titles, including "Wii Fit", which seeks to integrate health and entertainment under the theme of health, and newly-launched titles "Super Mario Galaxy" and "Mario Party 8" enjoyed robust sales. "Wii Sports" and "Wii Play" continued their strong sales performance as well.

As a result, net sales were 1,316.4 billion yen (up 84.7% y/y), operating income was 394 billion yen (up 135.1% y/y), income before income taxes and extraordinary items was 430.8 billion yen (up 95.2% y/y), and net income was 258.9 billion yen (up 96.3% y/y), respectively.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2008/080124e.pdf

DS hardware at 64.79 million worldwide LTD (compare with GBA at 80.72 million)
20.18 million in North/South America
21.66 million in Japan
22.94 million elsewhere

Wii hardware at 20.13 million worldwide LTD (compare with NGC at 21.72 million)
8.85 million in North/South America
4.99 million in Japan
6.30 million elsewhere

Wii Software: 113 Million Units LTD
DS Software: 330 million Units LTD

Sales-Age: NTDOY Q4 earnings report - NeoGAF

[jonajacket]

This is amazing, imagine when we all thought the DS would be destroyed by the PSP and the 'Revolution' was going to be stillborn from the weight of the PS3.

[E6600]

DS hardware at 64.79 million worldwide LTD (compare with GBA at 80.72 million)
Wii hardware at 20.13 million worldwide LTD (compare with NGC at 21.72 million)

What gives? Why less sales LTD than the previous gen? I thought Nintendo is dominating this gen!

[jonajacket]

Wii hardware at 20.13 million worldwide LTD (compare with NGC at 21.72 million)

The Wii is 1 year, the GC figure is it's entire life cycle (5 years?)

[Aeron]

He was making a Joke :P

[Aeron]

Should Point out something:

Software forecast figures do include quantity bundled with hardware for the results ended December 31, 2007, however,
software forecast figures in and after January 2008 do not include quantity bundled with hardware.

[Sim88]

113 / 20.13 = 5,61
330 / 64.79 = 5,09

Wii attach rate > DS attach rate.

[cyclone87]

Originally Posted by Sim88

113 / 20.13 = 5,61
330 / 64.79 = 5,09

Wii attach rate > DS attach rate.

If you include bundled software, yes.

[Icemage]

Something's odd about the numbers.

20M Wii consoles seems a bit high; we know they sell out, and none of the estimates are even in the same ballpark. Either NPD/MediaCreate/GfK are all spectacularly wrong, or Nintendo is fuzzing numbers somehow.

Software sales are probably to the retail channel; there's a lot of "sold to retailers but not yet sold to consumers" copies of games out there. 5.6 attach rate would be awfully close to Xbox 360's attach rate, and I find that suspicious as well.

[E6600]

Originally Posted by jonajacket

Wii hardware at 20.13 million worldwide LTD (compare with NGC at 21.72 million)

The Wii is 1 year, the GC figure is it's entire life cycle (5 years?)

I see my bad I thought the GC sold 21.72 million in its first year vs 20.13 million Wii