Reuters: Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co. Ltd. scored a nearly eightfold rise in quarterly operating profit on vigorous sales of its DS handheld games, and forecast stronger than expected growth this year. (…)
Nintendo said it aims to more than double its Wii sales to 14 million units in the current business year from 5.84 million a year earlier.
The Kyoto-based company added that it is targeting DS handheld game sales of 22 million units this year, compared with 23.56 million in fiscal 2007.
“We cannot make our business plan on the assumption that this extraordinary situation will continue this year, although modest DS growth in the United States and Europe can be expected,” Nintendo President Satoru Iwata told reporters.
Iwata said Nintendo aims to double its combined annual Wii and DS software sales to 300 million units from last year’s levels, without giving a specific time frame.
