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Nintendo nine-month profit doubles

OSAKA (Kyodo) Game console maker Nintendo Co. said Thursday its consolidated net profit in the April-December period doubled from a year earlier on brisk worldwide sales of both the Wii game console and DS portable model. Read the full story . . . ...full story at Japan Times

from Japan Times on Thu, Jan 24 2008

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