Nintendo lost 6.6 percent to close at 26,180 yen on the Osaka Securities Exchange, dropping the most since Feb. 2. It was the biggest drag on the MSCI Asia-Pacific Index, while Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 Stock Average gained 1.7 percent. Nintendo Co., the world’s largest maker of handheld game machines, fell the most in more than two months in Osaka trading after U.S. sales of its Wii video-game console declined for the first time in 14 months. March sales of the world’s most-popular console fell 17 percent from a year earlier to 601,000 players, Port Washington, New York-based NPD Group said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. “The severe sales result in the U.S. prompted disappointment among investors,” said Shigeo Kikuchi, an analyst at Takagi Securities Co. in Tokyo. “Nintendo had been perceived as one of the winners.” In the same period, stores in the U.S. sold 330,000 of Microsoft Corp.’s Xbox 360 consoles, a 26 percent gain, and 218,000 of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3, a 15 percent drop, NPD said. U.S. industry revenue slid to $1.43 billion. Nintendo has sold 19.6 million Wii consoles in the U.S. since the player was introduced in November 2006. The popularity has led game developers including Electronic Arts Inc. to create exclusive titles for the system. Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aime said March sales suffered in the absence of a top release like last year’s “Super Smash Brothers: Brawl.” “Our launch schedules are more spread out so we’re going to have these tough comparisons month to month,” Fils-Aime said in an interview yesterday. “But if you look at the overall trend of our business, it continues to be very healthy.” Trailing Sony Wii sales in Japan trailed Sony’s PlayStation 3 in the five weeks ended March 29, Tokyo-based research firm Enterbrain said on April 7. The March decline in the U.S. was the first since a supply shortage crimped sales in January 2008. Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said last week sales of the game console are now “experiencing the most unhealthy condition since it hit the Japan market.” Kyoto, western-Japan based Nintendo will begin sales of “Wii Sports Resort,” a sequel to the company’s best-selling game software, in June, Iwata told reporters in Tokyo on April 9. “With new software titles, we are hopeful we’re going to revitalize the Wii market in Japan.” Software Sales Industrywide, game software sales in March totaled $792.8 million, a 17 percent drop, according to NPD. Hardware sales declined 18 percent to $455.6 million. The slump reflected this year’s later Easter, which delayed some sales that would have occurred in March, and Nintendo’s gains from “Super Smash Bros.” last year, NPD analyst Anita Frazier said in a statement. “You might not think that Easter is that big of a gift- giving holiday, but our consumer data shows that 8 percent of industry unit sales were purchased for the Easter occasion in March 2008,” Frazier said. Nintendo sold 563,000 of its DS handheld players in the U.S. in March, down 19 percent from a year earlier. Fils-Aime said purchases will increase following the April 4 introduction of a new version of the system, the DSi. That player has already sold 435,000 units in the U.S., he said. Consumers bought 168,000 of Sony’s PSP handheld device. Nintendo had four of the top-10 selling titles during the month, including No. 2 ranked “Pokemon Platinum,” with sales of 805,000, and “Wii Fit,” third with sales of 540,000. The top-selling game in March was “Resident Evil 5.” Dell 0TD459 keyboard(0TD459 )Dell XG900 keyboard(Original )Gateway K020303D4 Keyboard Original(Original) Gateway ADP- 65HB AC Adapter(DC19V 3.42A )Dell Latitude D620 AC Adapter(DC19.5V 4.62A ) HP Pavilion DV9000 AC Adapter(DC19V 4.74A)Acer PA-1650-02 AC Adapter(DC19V 3.42A )Gateway API3AD03 AC adapter(DC19V 3.42A )Compaq 298239-001 AC Adapter(DC19V 4.74A )