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.

Obviously

[Phantasmo]

Obviously, uh... Nintendo is... dying?

Analysts predicted the death of Nintendo at the release of the Genesis, PSone, Dreamcast, PS2, Xbox, PSP and Xbox 360. It seems like I read about Nintendo making record profits every other day. I wonder if this news will effect the predictions in any way?

Guess we have to wait on the PS3's eventual release to find out.

Re:Nintendo Deserves It

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"Does the DS Lite play GBA games?"

One interesting thing about the DS when it comes to GBA games: The battery lasts a hell of a lot longer than playing a DS game on the system. I'm guessing this is because it only uses one of the screens and it disables the faster processor. In any event, there's still life to those ol GBA games. :)

Old and new

[vega80]

Some of Nintendo's success must be because they have a corp of veteran game designers. Plus, pairing the veterans up with bright new designers sounds like a winning formula.