Thanks to a certain dual-screened device, Nintendo aren't doing too badly. If only the same could be said for the GameCube...

For the financial year ending this March just gone, Nintendo have managed sales of 509,249,000,000 yen - down 1.2% from the previous year. However, operating profits rose 10.6% to 160,759,000,000 yen, with pure profits up 12.5% to 98,078,000,000 yen.

Much of the healthy sales were down to the DS, and latterly, the DS Lite. To date, 16.73 million units have been shipped (numbers from both versions combined) - and of that number, 11.46 million were in the last financial year. Per territory, the numbers break down to 4.78 million being sold in Japan, 2.19 million in North America and 3.76 million in Europe and the rest of the world.

A staggering 6.55 million units worldwide were sold of Nintendogs, making it by far the most popular DS game of the financial year, with Mario Kart DS in second with 4.22 million units sold and third place going to Animal Crossing with 3.56 million. Brain Training also deserves an honourable mention as the standard-bearer for Nintendo's new Touch Generations lineup - the three titles in the series to date have managed a combined total of 5.1 million units.

Overall, nearly 50 million units of DS software were sold in the year, making a total of 60.44 million units since launch. By region, that breaks down to 21.52 million for Japan, 16.08 million for North America and 12.35 million for Europe and elsewhere.

And now, the GameCube, which shipped only 2.35 million hardware units and 32.79 million pieces of software. This may not seem too bad, but it is a 70% drop from the previous term in its GameCube console business, despite Mario Party 7 and Pokemon XD both selling over a million copies each.

Nintendo is projecting that 16 million units of DS hardware and 70 million of software will ship this year. As for the Wii, set to debut later this year, the company expects to ship a total of 6 million Wii hardware units and 17 million pieces of software for the system worldwide before the end of the current financial year in April.