Nintendo has released another mixed financial report that details slumping sales but increasing profits.

Sales for the nine months to December 2014 dropped 11.3 percent compared to the same period last year, totalling ¥443 billion, reports GamesIndustry.biz.

"Members of the 3DS family" were Nintendo's strongest products, with 7.08 million units sold worldwide. The company expects that figure to jump again when the new 3DS hits Europe and North America. Consumers bought 53.04 million units of 3DS software over the same period.

Despite a releasing a number of critically successful games, the Wii U continues to flounder. The console managed on 3.03 million sales since April last year, bringing lifetime sales to only 9.2 million. Consumers bought 20.59 million units of Wii U software over the nine month period.

Year-on-year, combined hardware sales were down to ¥235 billion from ¥287 billion, and software dipped from ¥210.7 billion to ¥207 billion.

For the full year, net sales and operating income are expected to be lower than the company's forecasts.

Nonetheless, profits over the nine month period were up to ¥59.5 billion compared to last year's profits of ¥10.2 billion for the same period. Nintendo is therefore predicting its first profitable full-year result since launching the Wii U in 2012.

However, Nintendo points out that much of that profit is due to a depreciation of the Japanese Yen.

"As a result of exchange gains totalling ¥51.0 billion due to depreciation of the Yen at the end of this period compared with the one at the end of the last fiscal year, ordinary income was ¥92.3 billion and net income was ¥59.5 billion."