Nintendo Ups DS Console Shipment Target
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Nintendo Co. Ltd. raised its 2004 shipment target for its DS handheld video game device by 40 percent to 2.8 million units on Thursday after many stores in Japan and
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Nintendo Co. Ltd.&#39;s DS video game player saw strong sales on its debut in Japan on Thursday, kicking off what is expected to be a fierce fight with rival Sony Corp.
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Japan's Nintendo Co. on Tuesday raised its 2006/07 net profit forecast by 20.5 percent, beating market expectations, thanks to strong sales of its DS hand-held video game player and a weaker-than-expected yen.
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SEEKING to head off a challenge from video-game rival Sony Corp, Nintendo said on Tuesday that its dual-screen (DS) Game Boy player will hit stores in the United States just in time for the crucial holiday shopping season.
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After bringing the fight to North American shores last month, the world's top console makers have slowly been releasing their wares around the globe, hoping to gobble up customers the way their products did in the United States over Thanksgiving weekend.
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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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Nintendo has revealed the companies plans to increase by 40% the number of Nintendo DS portable gaming systems shipping in the US before the end of the year.
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(InfoWorld) - Sony is confident it will hit shipment targets for its recently launched PlayStation 3 game console, its president said Thursday. Prior to theÂ launch of the PS3 in November, Sony said it would ship 2 million consoles this year in Japan and the U.S. and 6 million by the end of its financial year in March 2007. Those targets remain achievable and won't be changed, said Ryoji Chubachi, Sony president and chief executive officer of the electronics business, in a briefing with reporters at its Tokyo headquarters. "With the PS3 the bottleneck has been availability of blue lasers but now production of those has been launched in volume," he said. "We did take time preparing ourselves but as of today we have reached our target production rate. Based on projections for this year we will reach [the PS3 shipment targets]." The PlayStation 3 was launched in Japan on Nov. 11 and in North America, Hong Kong and Taiwan on Nov. 17. Around 81,639 PlayStation 3 consoles were sold over the launch weekend in Japan, according to market data from Media Create. Demand for the console vastly outstripped supply but sales have dropped each week since the launch due to scarcity, according to the figures. Media Create estimates 42,099 units were sold in the first full week of sales and then 32,622 units in the week from Nov. 20 to Nov. 27. For the following week, the latest for which data is available, sales were lower still at 31,436 units, the company estimated. The PlayStation 3 had been due to launch in Europe in November but the laser shortage meant Sony postponed the European launch until March 2007. That date remains unchanged, said Chubachi. The executive also said that Sony will keep looking at ways of reducing the manufacturing cost of the console so that it can turn a profit on the PS3 as quickly as possible. Traditionally, game console makers have sold their machines at cost or a loss and then relied on game software sales to make a profit. In the case of the PS3, production costs are high and losses run at between $240 and $305 per console sold, according to a parts breakdown by iSuppli Corp. One of the reasons the PS3 is relatively expensive is the Cell processor that sits at its heart.Â Developed by Sony, Toshiba, and IBM, the chip is one of the most powerful yet developed and last year Sony created a team to look at how to use the chip in applications other than gaming. Chubachi said the team remains focused on this task but he declined to detail when the Cell might find its way into a television or other consumer electronics product.
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Japanese computer games firm Nintendo raises its sales target for the DS handheld  games console after strong early sales.
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Japanese video game maker Nintendo Co.  Ltd. reported a 39.1 percent rise in operating profit for the  first half on Thursday and raised its sales target for a new,  keenly awaited portable game player.
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KYOTO, Japan  - Japanese video game maker Nintendo  Co. Ltd.  said on Tuesday it sees an emerging  possibility it will beat its earnings forecasts for the year to  March as well as its sales target for the DS handheld games.
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Nintendo Co Ltd (7974.OS),  already struggling with shortages of its Wii video game  console, is also seeing signs of higher-than-expected demand  for its DS handheld device, the company's U.S. president said  on Monday.
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REDMOND, Washington  - Nintendo Co Ltd   is having trouble planning for the coming months because of  shortages of its Wii video game console, and the company is  also seeing signs of higher-than-expected demand for its DS  handheld device, a top U.S. executive said on Monday.
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THIS YULE is all about console supply and there&#39;s precious little units around, it has emerged. Nintendo has announced that it is going to ship another 400,000 units of its DS console to the United States to meet the shortfall there.
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Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime painted a rosy picture for the Wii Wednesday, saying it should easily meet its target of shipping four million consoles worldwide by years end.
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Nintendo DS will hit the US market in late November with a price tag of $150, and will have 14 game titles by the end of the year.
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Nintendo Co. said consumers in the Americas snapped up more than 600,000 of its Wii video game systems in eight days, totaling about $190 million in sales, as it competes with Sony Corp.'s new PlayStation 3.