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"Nintendo has lowered its Wii U sales forecast after lower than expected festive sales. Nintendo has cut the number of anticipated Wii U console sales from 5.5 million units to 4 million units by the end of the financial year.  Predicted software sales, meanwhile, have been reduced from 24 million to 16 million. Despite lowering its overall sales forecast by approximately 17% on all platforms, the company still expects to turn a profit thanks to a change in the Japanese exchange rate. &amp;quot;Owing to the fact that the Wii U hardware sales have a negative impact on Nintendo&amp;#039;s profits, the operating loss was 5.8 billion yen,&amp;quot; Nintendo revealed (via Eurogamer).  &amp;quot;As a result of exchange gains totalling 22.2 billion yen due to the depreciation of the yen at the end of calendar year 2012, however, ordinary income was 22.7 billion yen and net income was 14.5 billion yen.&amp;quot; Global Wii U console sales currently stand at 3.06 million, while Nintendo is believed to have shifted 11.69 million games. Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U are the best-selling games, shifting more than 2 million units each.   3DS software sales are also up on last year, with Pok\u00E9mon Black 2 and White 2 notching up more than 7.5 million sales combined. Nintendo recently announced a host of new Wii U games as part of a Nintendo Direct conference. Highlights include two Legend of Zelda games, including a Wind Waker remake, and that both a new Mario Kart and a 3D Super Mario are in development. Watch the Wii U Nintendo Direct conference in full below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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