In Q4 of 2014, Wii U sold 1.91 million units and the 3DS family sold 4.99 million units. Nintendo just posted their financial results for the first nine months of the fiscal year. As of right now, Nintendo is still making profit.Nintendo explained the results as seen below:

During the nine months ended December 31, 2014, for “Nintendo 3DS,” “New Nintendo 3DS/New Nintendo 3DS XL,” launched as the newest members of the “Nintendo 3DS” family in Japan in October, got off to a good start and continued to sell well. However, as sales of the “Nintendo 3DS” hardware in the United States and in Europe, where “New Nintendo 3DS/New Nintendo 3DS XL” were yet to be launched, did not grow sufficiently, the global sales of the “Nintendo 3DS” family hardware were 7.08 million units.

As for the “Nintendo 3DS” software, “Pokémon Omega Ruby/Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” and “Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS” enjoyed robust sales with 9.35 million units and 6.19 million units sold respectively, while titles such as “Tomodachi Life,” “Mario Kart 7” and “Pokémon X/Pokémon Y” showed steady sales. There were also a number of hit titles from third-party publishers in the Japanese market. As a result, the global sales of the “Nintendo 3DS” software were 53.04 million units.

With respect to “Wii U,” Nintendo released two big titles, “Mario Kart 8”and “Super Smash Bros. for Wii U,” which enable family members and friends to have fun together in their living rooms. These titles sold 4.77 million units and 3.39 million units globally, and the global sales of the “Wii U” hardware and software reached 3.03 million and 20.59 million units respectively.

As a result, net sales were 442.9 billion yen (of which overseas sales were 323.2 billion yen or 73.0% of the total sales) and operating income was 31.6 billion yen. As a result of exchange gains totaling 51.0 billion yen due to depreciation of the yen at the end of this period compared with the one at the end of the last fiscal year, ordinary income was 92.3 billion yen and net income was 59.5 billion yen.

Furthermore, Nintendo updated their website with the lifetime sales of the Wii U and 3DS family, which have now sold 9.2 million and 50.41 million respectively.

Moreover, Nintendo lowered their predicted net sales and operating income. However, they increased their ordinary income, net income and net income for share.

Nintendo explained this below:

Based on the sales performance for the nine months ended December 31, 2014 and afterwards, net sales and operating income are expected to be lower than our original forecasts.

Also, considering recent trends in foreign currency exchanges, assumed exchange rates for the fourth financial quarter as well as at the end of the full fiscal year have been revised as follows: 115 yen per U.S. dollar (previous rate: 100 yen), 130 yen per euro (previous rate: 140 yen). As a result, we have revised up the ordinary income and net income forecasts.

Finally, Nintendo showed a full breakdown of Wii U and 3DS family sales, by region; as well as their forecast for the full fiscal year – 9 million 3DSs and 3.6 million Wii U’s. To reach their goals Nintendo would need to sell 570,000 Wii Us and 1.92 million3DSs.

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 My Opinion:

I think this is great news for Nintendo. They’ve been losing money for the last two years and it looks like it will be different this year. I just hope they manage to reach their predicted Wii U and 3DS sales, but, I don’t think it’s likely. 

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Lucy Pallent is a Senior Writer at MONG. She is a girl gamer from a rock in the middle of nowhere and is the world’s biggest n00b. She likes Nintendo, JRPGs and food. Feel free to follow her random ramblings on Twitter.