Nintendo today reported financial results for the first six months of its current fiscal year (through Sept. 30, 2011), and revised downward full-year financial and unit sales forecasts.

In total, the company shipped 9 million hardware units and more than 73 million software units during the half year. In addition, Nintendo revised its full-year unit global shipment forecasts as follows, compared with projections at the end of the previous fiscal quarter:

GLOBAL SHIPMENT FORECAST (millions of units)
Previous forecast
July 28, 2011		 Revised forecast
Oct. 27, 2011
Nintendo DS Hardware 9 6
Software 65* 62**
Wii Hardware 12 12
Software 110* 100**
Nintendo 3DS Hardware 16 16
Software 70* 50**

During Q3 and through the rest of the fiscal year, Nintendo and third-party publishers will release several highly anticipated software titles that play exclusively on Nintendo platforms. First-party titles include The Legend of Zelda™: Skyward Sword for the Wii™ console, and Super Mario 3D Land™ and Mario Kart™ 7 for the Nintendo 3DS™ system.

*Forecast announced on July 28 includes units bundled in hardware sets during the June quarter. Forecast units during remainder of the fiscal year are standalone software only.

**Forecast announced on Oct. 27 includes units bundled in hardware sets during the half year. Forecast units during remainder of the fiscal year are standalone software only.

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To view an English translation of the complete financial results and other financial information, please visithttp://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/index.html

Update: For obvious reason Nintendo wasn’t very clear about talking about how much they lost by not reaching their goals. According to reports Nintendo lost 20 billion yen ($264 million) for the full fiscal year.