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Nintendo Wii ‘set for a sales slide’

Lucy Tobin
27.10.09

Nintendo's Wii is close to market saturation and faces falling sales, analysts said today ahead of the console maker's first-half earnings on Thursday.

The warning came after rivals Sony and Microsoft launched similar body-tracking controllers with their PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 machines, while they have slashed prices.

Nintendo has forecast a 7.5% rise in net profit to 300 billion yen (£2 billion) for the year to March 2010.

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