{"id":5274,"date":"2010-01-28T10:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"nintendo-sales-drop-significantly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/5274-nintendo-sales-drop-significantly","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo sales drop significantly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo today released its financial results for the period between April 1st 2009 and December 31st 2009, bringing with it the lifetime hardware sales figures for the company&rsquo;s current generation of consoles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Global lifetime sales <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wii &ndash; 67 million units<br \/>DS &ndash; 125 million units<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5458556\/nintendo-reveals-lifetime-hardware-shipment-figures\" target=\"_blank\">Kotaku<\/a> the manufacturer also revealed that 510 million Wii games have been sold since the console was released in 2007. A reported 688 million have been sold for the company&rsquo;s mobile DS console.<\/p>\n<p>When broken down by region the figures are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Americas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wii &#8211; 32 million units <br \/>DS &#8211; 45 million units<\/p>\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wii &#8211; 9.7 million units<br \/>DS &#8211; 29.9 million units<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wii &#8211; 25.7 million units<br \/>DS &#8211; 50 million units<\/p>\n<p>Although these numbers may seem impressive the financial figures are less so. Year on year sales were down 23.1%, operating income down 40.8% and net income down 9.4%.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite impressive figures Nintendo sees steady decline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}