Nintendo has announced that during the nine-month period that ended December 31, 2007, the Nintendo DS sold a total of 24.5 million units (64.79 million units life-to-date) worldwide. DS games sold well too, led by new titles like The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass, Mario Party DS, Pokemon Diamond, Pokemon Pearl and Brain Age 2: More Training in Minutes a Day. In addition, a number of long-term selling titles such as Nintendogs and New Super Mario Bros. recorded strong sales.
In the same nine-month period that ended December 31, 2007, the Nintendo Wii hardware reached total sales of 14.29 million units (exceeding 20 million units life-to-date in just over one year) worldwide. Wii games including the newly-launches titles Super Mario Galaxy, Mario Party 8, Wii Play (along with Wii Sports and Wii Fit in Japan) kept selling strong.
Nintendo said it expects to sell 18.5 million Wiis (24.21 million life-to-date) and 29.5 million DS Lites (69.79 million life-to-date for the entire fiscal year 2007 that lasts until March 31, 2008.
As a result, net sales were 1,316.4 billion Yen / US$12.29 billion (up 84% year-on-year), operating income was 394 billion Yen / US$3.68 billion (up 135.1% year-on-year), income before income taxes and extraordinary items was 430.8 billion Yen / US$4.02 billion (up 95.2% year-on-year), and net income was 258.9 billion Yen / US$2.42 billion (up 96.3% year-on-year), respectively. — Via Nintendo of Japan