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It is hoping an updated version, the Wii U, due for launch at the end of this calendar year, will help revive the flagging console market.
The new tablet-sized console will feature a touch-screen, HD graphics and motion sensors. It will allow players to view different perspectives on the controller screen while seeing another viewpoint on the big TV screen.
But some analysts believe that competition from online social-networking games and smartphone apps is denting the console market irrevocably.
The company had also been selling its 3DS handheld device below cost during the year thanks to a price cut it was forced to make in response to intensifying competition in the sector.
"I don't think Nintendo's Wii U is likely to change that trend."
Super Marioa net loss of 43.2bn yen ($533m; ?329m) for the year,Carte dsi, compared with net income of 77.6bn yen the year before.
Nintendo is likely to launch the Wii U at the E3 gaming expo in Los Angeles this June,R4 3DS.
But it now expects to return to profit in 2012 as the yen weakens,R4i DSi,R4i Gold 3DS.
The Kyoto-based company had expected losses of 65bn yen as the strong yen made exports dearer.
"The games console market is declining altogether because mobile phone devices are allowing casual gamers to play much more easily wherever they happen to be," said Stuart Miles, head of Pocket-lint, the technology review site.
Nintendo, the Japanese game giant, has reported its first annual loss after disappointing sales of its Wii game console and a strong yen hit revenues.
While sales of Nintendo's Wii console have been slowing of late, the company still shifted 9.84m units for the year to March 2012 and has sold over 95m in total.
Flagging marketBut it hopes to reverse this situation later this year and plans to launch a new 2D version of its Super Mario Bros. game this August.
Nintendo, which once led the video games world with titles such as Pokemon and Super Mario, has suffered increasing competition from casual gamers playing on their smartphones instead.