Nintendo today reported financial results for the first six months of its current fiscal year (through Sept. 30, 2011), and revised downward full-year financial and unit sales forecasts.
In total, the company shipped 9 million hardware units and more than 73 million software units during the half year. In addition, Nintendo revised its full-year unit global shipment forecasts as follows, compared with projections at the end of the previous fiscal quarter:
| GLOBAL SHIPMENT FORECAST (millions of units) | |||
| Previous forecast July 28, 2011 |
Revised forecast Oct. 27, 2011 |
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| Nintendo DS | Hardware | 9 | 6 |
| Software | 65* | 62** | |
| Wii | Hardware | 12 | 12 |
| Software | 110* | 100** | |
| Nintendo 3DS | Hardware | 16 | 16 |
| Software | 70* | 50** | |
During Q3 and through the rest of the fiscal year, Nintendo and third-party publishers will release several highly anticipated software titles that play exclusively on Nintendo platforms. First-party titles include The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword for the Wii™ console, and Super Mario 3D Land™ and Mario Kart™ 7 for the Nintendo 3DS™ system.
*Forecast announced on July 28 includes units bundled in hardware sets during the June quarter. Forecast units during remainder of the fiscal year are standalone software only.
**Forecast announced on Oct. 27 includes units bundled in hardware sets during the half year. Forecast units during remainder of the fiscal year are standalone software only.
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