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KYOTO, Giappone (Reuters) - Nintendo ha detto oggi che le vendite della sua console di videogiochi Wii sono più che raddoppiate durante le festività del Ringraziamento negli Stati Uniti, sfidando le prospettive negative della crisi economica globale.
Le dichiarazioni del presidente Satoru Iwata offrono uno spiraglio di ottimismo in un momento in cui le compagnie di tutto il mondo tagliano la produzione e abbassano le loro stime di vendite.
Iwata ha detto a Reuters in un'intervista che le vendite di Wii sono più che raddoppiate a circa 800.000 unità durante la settimana del Thanksgiving negli Usa, rispetto alle 250.000 unità vendute un anno prima.
"Quando l'economia è forte, la gente tende a comprare tre cose in cima alla loro lista dei desideri. Ma quando le cose vanno male, la gente compra solo la prima cosa della lista", ha detto Iwata oggi.
"Fortunatamente per noi molti acquirenti hanno messo i nostri prodotti in cima alla loro lista".
Iwata ha aggiunto che le vendite della console portatile DS sono salite di circa il 20% durante la settimana, rispetto all'anno precedente e che le vendite di Wii in Europa in questo periodo prefestivo hanno superato di gran lunga quelle del 2007.
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Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata expects demand for Wii and DS game players to hold up this year after sales during the Black Friday shopping week increased more than the company had anticipated.
“I see no negative signs so far,” Iwata, 49, said in an interview yesterday in Kyoto, Japan, where Nintendo is based. “Until the end of this calendar year, sales will be in line with our expectations.”
U.S. sales of the Wii in the week ended Nov. 29 doubled to about 800,000 consoles, Iwata said. The number of portable DS players sold rose 20 percent to around 800,000, he said.
Iwata’s comments indicate Nintendo is coping better than Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. with the global recession that forced the world’s two largest consumer-electronics makers to slash their annual revenue forecasts. Monthly retail sales in the U.S. tumbled the most in almost four decades in November.
“This is good. It confirms that the video-gaming industry is clearly still growing and the Wii is largely the cause of that,” said Jack Neele, who helps oversee $150 billion at Robeco NV in Rotterdam. “Thanks to the bigger installed base, Nintendo will sell more software, which carries higher margins than the consoles.”
Nintendo shares rose 4.9 percent to 32,350 yen in Osaka trading before Iwata’s comments. The stock has lost 52 percent in 2008, after more than doubling in each of the past two years.
The Wii has outsold the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 almost every month since its release in November 2006. Nintendo’s flagship machine led U.S. console sales in October with 803,000 units, followed by 371,000 for the Xbox 360 and 190,000 for the PS3, according to researcher NPD Group Inc.
Sweeping the Market
Nintendo looks likely to “sweep the market” for Christmas shopping in North America, Merrill Lynch & Co. said in a report yesterday. The Wii is out of stock at many retailers and almost sold out on Internet shopping sites, the brokerage said.
“We have been fortunate to see our products among the top of consumers’ wish list,” Iwata said. “With the economy deteriorating, it is very important to stay on the list.”
To meet demand, Nintendo increased production of the Wii by “a bit” in November from 2.4 million units in October, and is doing the same this month, he said.
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KYOTO, Giappone (Reuters) - Nintendo ha detto oggi che le vendite della sua console di videogiochi Wii sono più che raddoppiate durante le festività del Ringraziamento negli Stati Uniti, sfidando le prospettive negative della crisi economica globale.
Le dichiarazioni del presidente Satoru Iwata offrono uno spiraglio di ottimismo in un momento in cui le compagnie di tutto il mondo tagliano la produzione e abbassano le loro stime di vendite.
Iwata ha detto a Reuters in un'intervista che le vendite di Wii sono più che raddoppiate a circa 800.000 unità durante la settimana del Thanksgiving negli Usa, rispetto alle 250.000 unità vendute un anno prima.
"Quando l'economia è forte, la gente tende a comprare tre cose in cima alla loro lista dei desideri. Ma quando le cose vanno male, la gente compra solo la prima cosa della lista", ha detto Iwata oggi.
"Fortunatamente per noi molti acquirenti hanno messo i nostri prodotti in cima alla loro lista".
Iwata ha aggiunto che le vendite della console portatile DS sono salite di circa il 20% durante la settimana, rispetto all'anno precedente e che le vendite di Wii in Europa in questo periodo prefestivo hanno superato di gran lunga quelle del 2007.
http://www.borsaitaliana.reuters.it...B706R_RTROPTT_0_OITIN-NINTENDO-INTERVISTA.XML
Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co. President Satoru Iwata expects demand for Wii and DS game players to hold up this year after sales during the Black Friday shopping week increased more than the company had anticipated.
“I see no negative signs so far,” Iwata, 49, said in an interview yesterday in Kyoto, Japan, where Nintendo is based. “Until the end of this calendar year, sales will be in line with our expectations.”
U.S. sales of the Wii in the week ended Nov. 29 doubled to about 800,000 consoles, Iwata said. The number of portable DS players sold rose 20 percent to around 800,000, he said.
Iwata’s comments indicate Nintendo is coping better than Sony Corp. and Panasonic Corp. with the global recession that forced the world’s two largest consumer-electronics makers to slash their annual revenue forecasts. Monthly retail sales in the U.S. tumbled the most in almost four decades in November.
“This is good. It confirms that the video-gaming industry is clearly still growing and the Wii is largely the cause of that,” said Jack Neele, who helps oversee $150 billion at Robeco NV in Rotterdam. “Thanks to the bigger installed base, Nintendo will sell more software, which carries higher margins than the consoles.”
Nintendo shares rose 4.9 percent to 32,350 yen in Osaka trading before Iwata’s comments. The stock has lost 52 percent in 2008, after more than doubling in each of the past two years.
The Wii has outsold the PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 almost every month since its release in November 2006. Nintendo’s flagship machine led U.S. console sales in October with 803,000 units, followed by 371,000 for the Xbox 360 and 190,000 for the PS3, according to researcher NPD Group Inc.
Sweeping the Market
Nintendo looks likely to “sweep the market” for Christmas shopping in North America, Merrill Lynch & Co. said in a report yesterday. The Wii is out of stock at many retailers and almost sold out on Internet shopping sites, the brokerage said.
“We have been fortunate to see our products among the top of consumers’ wish list,” Iwata said. “With the economy deteriorating, it is very important to stay on the list.”
To meet demand, Nintendo increased production of the Wii by “a bit” in November from 2.4 million units in October, and is doing the same this month, he said.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602063&refer=movers_by_index&sid=amLZHfRGoWNM