(this is probably 1st party, possibily also 2nd party, but not
counting 3rd party games)

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Nintendo Develops 45 New Games for Wii, 79 Titles for DS Player

By Pavel Alpeyev

April 27 (Bloomberg) -- Nintendo Co., the world's biggest maker of
handheld game players, said it's developing 45 software titles for the
Wii console, a device that helped drive profit sevenfold in the past
quarter.

The company is also developing 79 games for the two-year-old DS
portable player, President Satoru Iwata said at news conference in
Tokyo today. The next batch of games will be introduced to the market
at the end of ``summer,'' he said.

Nintendo yesterday posted a net income of 42.4 billion yen ($354
million) in the three months ended March 31, as sales almost tripled.
The Wii console, equipped with a motion-sensor controller that can be
swung like a bat or tennis racquet, is forecast to sell 14 million
units this fiscal year, more than three times the number sold in the
five months it was introduced, the Kyoto-based company said yesterday.

To contact the reporter on this story: Pavel Alpeyev in Tokyo at
palpeyev@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: April 27, 2007 00:58 EDT

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