Wii propels Nintendo sales to record heights
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Raises forecast The phenomenal success of Nintendo's Wii games console has helped the Japanese manufacturer to double its profits during the six months to the end of September. Nintendo said on Thursday that net profit reached 132.42bn yen ($1.2bn) for the first half of its latest fiscal year, up from 54.4bn yen for the same time last year. Group sales more than doubled to 694.8bn yen ($6.1bn) from 298.82bn yen last time around.â¦
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.  has sold more  than 3 million units of its Wii game console in Japan, three  times the sales of Sony Corp.'s  PlayStation 3, game  magazine publisher Enterbrain said.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.  sold 476,000 units of its new Wii video game console in the United States in November, more than twice the number of PlayStation 3s sold by rival Sony Corp. , as the two consoles debuted mid-month, research group NPD said on Friday.
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Nintendo says it has sold more than 600,000 of its new Wii game consoles, since its launch eight days ago in North America.
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Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd  nearly  tripled its first-half profit and boosted its annual earnings  outlook, as its popular Wii and DS game machines outsell rival  Sony Corp's  PlayStation.
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Nintendo's Wii game console outsold its competitors in January, keeping its lead against rivals Sony and Microsoft, according to new sales figures from analyst firm NPD.
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U.S. sales of video-game hardware  and software jumped more than 50 percent in November, driven by  record purchases of Nintendo Co Ltd's  Wii console and  several new blockbuster games, industry data showed on  Thursday.
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. is on track to meet  its target of selling 4 million units of its Wii game console  globally by the end of the year, with the potential for  exceeding that goal limited only by manufacturing constraints,  Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said on  Wednesday.
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Japan's Nintendo Co Ltd nearly tripled  its first-half profit and boosted its annual earnings outlook  on Thursday as its popular Wii and DS game machines outsell  rival Sony Corp's PlayStation.
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Sales of Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 game  console surpassed one million units in Japan in about eight  months after its launch, more than four times as long as it  took Nintendo's hot-selling Wii to reach the same mark.
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New games and consoles helped drive US video game sales to a record last year, figures show.
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Shares in Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS)  briefly jumped more than 5 percent on Friday after robust  holiday sales of Wii and DS game machines helped more than  double its quarterly operating profit and prompted it to raise  its outlook above market expectations.
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Nintendo says it has sold more than 600,000 of its new Wii consoles, since its launch eight days ago in the US.
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A low price and an innovative controller could push Nintendo's Wii to the top spot in Japan.
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Outsold PS3 3:1 Nintendo has sold more than 3m Wii games consoles in Japan, local games magazine publisher Enterbrain has claimed. Earlier this week, it said Sony had shipped 1.01m PlayStation 3s in the country.â¦
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Nintendo Co. said Thursday its net profit nearly doubled in the nine months to December and it lifted its full-year revenue forecast on strong global sales of its game consoles including the Wii.
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Video game sales soared to a record  $18.2 billion last year, but the days of strong growth are on  pause as players await a new generation of consoles in 2005 and  2006, a new study showed on Wednesday.