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Nintendo's H1 profit falls 59 pct, cuts forecast
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mentalfloss
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"Units in Tens of Thousands"
FUCK YOU... okay, maybe it's not so bad, but seriously.. TENS of thousands? Who does that?
FUCK YOU... okay, maybe it's not so bad, but seriously.. TENS of thousands? Who does that?
swerve said:http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/events/091030/img/slide/42l.jpg[IMG]
So the fall in the US market was not really *led* by Nintendo, as their market share in America has grown through the first nine months of this year.
So many pics and stats (especially interesting for those curious about PS3/360 ratios this year...
[url]http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/events/091030/index.html[/url][/QUOTE]
Thanks.
[img]http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/library/events/091030/img/slide/10l.jpg
Estimate based no pixels for hardware sales in UK, France, Germany and Spain (75% to 80% of whole Europe, according to Nintendo) in 2009 up to September:
DS: 4.11m
Wii: 2.23m
360: 1.23m
PS3: 1.38m
PSP: 0.79m
PS2: 0.31m
Flachmatuch
Member
mentalfloss said:
The Japanese, I guess. I don't know the technical term in English, but where English groups words for numbers into 3 digit groups, Japanese groups it into 4 digit groups. They have a separate word for ten thousand for example, not a combination of "ten" and "thousand", a new separate word for hundred million (not million) etc. If this makes sense...I'm not really good at explaining stuff, and of course this might have nothing to do with this concrete situation :-D
is a discrete unit in Chinese Numbering.Nintendo's issue is really software.
They really need more of everything. They need to partner with more developers to make games they can't possibly make on time.
Other M, S&P2 are nice. But how about having SE handle a high profile RPG, Namco handle a racer etc?
It's not like there's a shortage of staff, the recession has created a lot of unemployed artists and staff in Japan. They could probably staff 10 studios full of people working on games if they wanted to.
They really need more of everything. They need to partner with more developers to make games they can't possibly make on time.
Other M, S&P2 are nice. But how about having SE handle a high profile RPG, Namco handle a racer etc?
It's not like there's a shortage of staff, the recession has created a lot of unemployed artists and staff in Japan. They could probably staff 10 studios full of people working on games if they wanted to.
Fourth Storm
Member
Nintendo really needs some good commercials this holiday season. I'm seeing Sony's current fantastic commercial campaign every single time I turn on the tv, no matter the channel seemingly.
Those "Wii would like to play" commercials seemed effective, but I never see them any more and they don't seem to have anything to replace them. Granted, I'm sure NSMBWii will get some type of push. Nintendo really needs to show off the software they've amassed, however. A commercial featuring a diverse array of clips from the likes of Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit+, Excitebots, Dead Space: Extraction, and Final Fantasy:CCTCB would likely help a great deal in getting those games and the Wii back into the public consciousness.
Those "Wii would like to play" commercials seemed effective, but I never see them any more and they don't seem to have anything to replace them. Granted, I'm sure NSMBWii will get some type of push. Nintendo really needs to show off the software they've amassed, however. A commercial featuring a diverse array of clips from the likes of Wii Sports Resort, Wii Fit+, Excitebots, Dead Space: Extraction, and Final Fantasy:CCTCB would likely help a great deal in getting those games and the Wii back into the public consciousness.
YES IT IS D:Stumpokapow said:
It is odd how many titles there are for 2009 though, and this is the last report for 2009 too. Wonder if they will really make it out this year. Only 2 months left. And only 2 titles that are left from the report this time last year, and they were marked 2009 at the time too.
Road said:
NSMB DS is so very close to beating out SMW. Mario Kart Wii sales have kinda slowed. It's only sold 3m this FY so far vs. the 15 million for the previous year. I'm sure a lot of publishers would like to have the problem of a year old game only selling 3m in the first half of the second FY of its release.
Wii Fit Plus numbers indicate a pretty decent October for the US. Overseas shipments might include Australia, but I think it might be a stretch to include Europe (it only came out there recently). So first month sales of Wii Fit Plus might be around the 600k-700k range in the US. I've been seeing commercials for it too, though not as many as the new (and damn good) campaign Sony rolled out.
Starwolf_UK
Member
Finally. It proves what I have been saying nearly a year. On page 5:bttb said:
Take that NoE reps who were "Oh your prices have gone up its because Pound has declined against the Yen and we cannot make a profit otherwise". Thing is; was it 480 million Euro of sales they were meant to have (the £ price for titles was higher than € for quite a few years). The scariest thing even increasing the prices has not prevented the decline.
From page 7:Aniawk said:
Iwata said: