Nintendo’s yearly turnover drop by 66%

Video games gigantic Nintendo has appear its yearly margins dropping by 66%, hurt by a strong yen and a drop in sales.

Net profit for the year to the finish of March came in at 77.6bn yen $945m measured with 228.6bn yen the last year, its results illustrated. The company says that though it had not faced any direct destruction from previous month's quake and tsunami, it supposed it to weigh on consumer expenditure in Japan.

Nintendo also declared that it will free a descendent to the Wii in 2012. Nintendo is banking on the precedent to the Wii creating relocation from the Wii - and potentially its opponents - a no-brainer for buyers. ”

Net sales fell 29% to 1.014 trillion yen. Nintendo also features an increasing competition from smartphones and tablets. In an offer to challenge return, it launched the 3DS, a handheld console that gives a 3D skill for users without the requirement to wear specific glasses.

The company said the tool, which initiated in February in Japan and in March in the US, Europe and Australia, had a "flat begin in sales", which accumulated to 3.61 million internationally.

In another statement, Nintendo said it had made a decision to start a system to thrive the Wii next year. It will give a show of the new model at the E3 Expo in Los Angeles in June. Nintendo has sold 86 million units of the Wii since it’s beginning in 2006.

But sales of the console are declining- 15.1 million were sold in the year to March, down from 20.1 million the last year. And Nintendo anticipates sales of about 13 million in the next year. By assessment, competitor Microsoft has also perceived a small decline in sales of its Xbox - it sold 10.3 million in the year to March 2010, down from 11.2 million the last year.

But Sony has observed an increase in sales of its Playstation 3. It sold 13 million pieces in the year to March 2010, up from 10.1 million the year before.