Nintendo have lowered their expectations on the amount of hardware sales of both of their consoles. Sales must have been low for the Wii as expectations have fallen by half a million units to 17.5 million, although not a patch on the drop in 30 million Wii software sales expectations which is now only 135 million. The Nintendo DS also saw lowered expectations and now fall at 23.5 million a lower forecast than the original 30 million.
By the end of the financial year (March 31st 2011) Nintendo expects to sell 4 million 3DS units, a rather large number with the months counting down. Have hardware sales been dented by the release of the PlayStation Move and Apple iPad? I suppose it won’t have helped Nintendo with such big releases anyway.
