DS Design = Nintendo Profits

There's nothing but good news in Nintendo's world right now, as the success of the DS leads to a more profitable financial year than they'd initially expected. From the article: "The company has re-estimated a net profit of 95 billion yen ($807 million) for the year ended March 31, compared with its previous forecast of $637 million. Last year the firm took £739 million." To get an idea of why the DS is so successful, Gamespot has a breakdown of an interview with the DS Engineers.

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[recursiv]

These are hard for me to compare.

Not bad at all

[Traiklin]

Not bad for a company many people figured would be out of the games buisness after the gamecube & GBA.

Once Sony announced the PSP all I ever say was "Nintendo is doomed!" "Sony's going to pwn their asses!" and so on and so forth, yet every article about the PSP & DS the DS is ALWAYS beating the PSP, simple reason to Nintendo has always made the system for cheap but not TO cheap.

no console has sold for more then $199.99 (I might be mistaken on the ones that came with a game, but back in the 80's with the NES my parents got my sister and me the NES with Mario, Duck Hunt & Track & Field (or whatever it was called) with the light gun and power pad for $199.99, same with the SNES when it was released with 2 controllers & Super Mario World) even their handheld systems sell for cheap (The DS is the only one to start off at $149.99 and is basically their most expensive system).

in the end Nintendo is usually posting profits for the year (their quarter profits are hit and miss though) while Microsoft and Sony (who are big on overloading a system with a lot of extra features that usually don't need to be there in the end) post losses almost every single time (though their end of year profits are usually up).

not bad for a company a good chuck of people thought would be gone after the gamecube.

DS Lite & Metroid Prime Hunters

[Cornflake917]

I just bought Metroid Prime Hunters last week, the gameplay is amazing. It feels so much like a PC fps. My main problem is after about 20 minutes of playing, my left hand gets tired from supporting the DS on it's own, and my right hand cramps up from holding the little stylus. It's exciting to hear that Nintendo is adjusting the weight and size of the DS. I can't wait to try one out. I might sell my DS and buy a DS lite if it addresses the issues I'm having.

Re:Not bad at all

[Anonymous Coward]

The GBA sold over 70 million consoles. Anyone who thought Nintendo was going out of business was frankly a complete, total and utter retard.

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

It is likely that they underestimated their profit so that they can release a statement like this, making them look good

Do you honestly believe that Nintendo (or anyone) anticipated Nintendogs to sell more than 6 Million units world-wide, Mario Kart DS and Animal Crossing to each sell more than 4 Million units world wide, and for Brain Training to sell more than 2 Million units in Japan Alone? When you have 4 games that sell more than twice as many units as the most optimistic estimate would have their sales at you're goint to have to re-adjust your profit forcasts.

It just seems odd though, of all the major pubishers Nintendo is the only one that underestimated their sales; most other large publishers have been re-adjusting forcasts because sales have been down across the board. I guess the analysts were right, Nintendo IS doomed for releasing such a gimick as the DS which didn't have games with no widespread apeal; the PSP with it's UMD movies and Grand Theft Auto is going to dominate the handheld market.