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Corporate Management Policy Briefing/
Semi-Annual Financial Results Briefing
for Fiscal Year Ended March 2009
Oct. 31, 2008 - Satoru Iwata, President
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And, you can play a completed game like this.

We are also preparing for a system that allows for players to share their own mini games with others who own this DS software.


In addition, if you use a new WiiWare software called WarioWareMyself Played, such mini games can be played on TV screen. As you might be able to tell with its title, this WiiWare software will allow the player to play but not create your own mini games.

Now that both Wii and DS have significant market penetrations, and as more households are increasingly connected to the net, we would like to aspire from a variety of different angles to create an environment where our customers can share the works of others' creativity by using DS and Wii.


Also, as a new way to expand the gaming population from a different angle, we are working on collaborations with other partners.


As I announced at the last conference, we have received the approval from Japan Broadcasting Association, or NHK, and have been collaborating with NHK Enterprises and NHK Educational to develop software that utilizes the rich contents of NHK. We are also initiating other collaborations in order to further expand the gaming population.


Nintendo and Nikkei Newspaper have been jointly developing a DS software with the theme of "Economic Knowledge Power" which will help players naturally comprehend the basics of today's economic landscape as well as keywords. We are also reviewing some possible link with Nikkei Newspaper's biannual NIKKEI TEST that was launched on September 2008 for those interested in measuring their "economical knowledge power."


The software includes such questions to measure players' knowledge of economic issues.


The goal is for players to build their economic knowledge power while enjoying the software.

We believe the software has significant marketing potential as the theme of the software, which is to master "economic knowledge power," is expected as business commonsense, and thus has the potential to further expand the gaming population.


By taking into considerations the most recent circumstance surrounding us, Nintendo has announced the revisions to our financial forecasts yesterday.


First, we have revised the foreign currency exchange rates for the latter half and at the end of this current fiscal year.


We have also revised our shipment estimates of our major hardware and software products. While we have not revised DS hardware shipment estimate, we have increased the projection for DS software from 197 million units to 270 million units due to its overseas market growth. As for Wii, the sales of Wii Fit and other software are strong, especially in the U.S. and in Europe, and because we now anticipate that we will be able to produce and ship the hardware almost to its maximum production capability, we have revised the hardware shipment forecast from 26.5million units to 27.5 million units, and the software from 186 million units to 200 million.


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