“Nintendo’s recent financial performance has been spectacular and we expect this to continue in FY:09,” said Pachter, “Nintendo’s Wii and DS appear to be selling even better in FY:09 than in FY:08, and we believe the momentum will last through the end of FY:09.”

He concluded that while “some hardcore gamers were critical of Nintendo’s failure to announce new Mario and Zelda games at the show… we think that Nintendo focused upon building upon its formidable lead with the mass market, and do not consider the lack of major hard core game announcements to be an abandonment of its core.”

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