Mockingbird
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Nintendo FY13: $70M Net Income; WiiU 3.45M, NDS retires, 3DS/WiiU miss expectations
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What indeed. . .
abstract alien
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I had no idea Mario Land 3D blew up like that. Fuck.
Lets not get too ahead of ourselves now. There is plenty of room to grow, and we know there are games coming.
I just don't know if those games will be enough to make it a success.
Happy Kid Icarus broke a million. Is Nintendo not allowed to report on Million selling 3rd party games?
PS. This isn't financially sound but I wish Nintendo opened up their own stores like Apple. Imagine the pure awesomeness
What 3rd party titles are likely to have shifted a million copies?
Well deserved too, it's a cracker.
Maybe, but there's no precedent for a system cratering this badly. Shipping 0.39m worldwide for its second quarter makes the Gamecube look like a runaway hit.
Aren't they actually down? Or are you saying they will go up when the market opens tomorrow?
zomgbbqftw
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Even PS3 did 0.7m in it's worst quarter on record, and that was at $599...
Eats into 3DS sales. They need to get more people buying 3DS rather than DS.
Nothing1016
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There had to have been at least one or one approaching a million sales. Then again the largest 3rd party launches have been RE, MH3U, and Lego City.
The stock went up IIRC.
abstract alien
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Indeed.
Am I looking at the wrong place then?
http://quotes.morningstar.com/stock/s?t=NTDOY
Yep it went down slightly
http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/stock-price/?symbol=ntdoy
your slang for cracker is different than the one i'm used to hearing. what does it mean?
Yes, stopping DS production is the best thing to do in order to allow 3DS to bloom in the West this year, thanks also to all the software coming.
zomgbbqftw
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No, the results were released after market close and Tokyo/Osaka don't have after hours trading. We can't accurately gauge investor reaction until 9.30 EST when Wall Street opens. The 5% increase overnight was on expectations of better results than forecast because Japanese companies have tended to outperform forecasts on the back of weaker yen.
peanutbutterlatte
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"Cracker" means like... it's really good, superb even. All the more poignant by the fact that Dave is being positive about something!
I think it means lively?
Not anytime soon.
He just becaue CEO of NoA
Reggie remaines COO (wich he was all the time, so he didnt get "demoted or fired")
http://venturebeat.com/2013/04/24/n...-year-profit-but-wii-u-sales-slow-to-a-crawl/
Hopefully just temporary since they're moving the other guy to Japan whole they find a new CEO for both divisions.
Sad they don't say they plan to ensure solid third party support. They still act like it should be all about them. They just can't make enough titles themselves for a constant flow.
Is it known for sure if any of them have cracked a million?
I dunno, I can see why Nintendo would concentrate on their own stuff, but then I can see why they'd benefit from mentioning 3rd party successes too.
Indeed! M3DLand is one of the best handheld games I've played in years.
I need to update my old-man slang.
They did outperform... instead of losing $200 million as Bloomberg said they made $70 million for the year due to exchange rate gains.
Granted, the operating loss is a bad number and isn't sustainable, but they technically made money for the year (hence all the asset numbers going up).
The only one I think we know of is Super Street Fighter IV. If there are any others I would assume Resident Evil Revelations might have but there are no confirmed sales reports.
zomgbbqftw
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No they didn't. The analyst forecast was for an ¥18bn operating loss, they posted a ¥36bn operating loss.
They also underperformed their own internal forecast of ¥20bn operating loss.
MH3U and DQ VII cracked a million in Japan alone (also so far DQ VII hasn't been released outside of Japan yet). KH 3D either cracked a million or is very close WW.
That is some reassuring forecast for the Wii U this year.
9m will only be possible if they kickstart the sales with software long before black friday. And since Iwata's job is one the line, I'm sure he doesn't want to overshoot the goals.
How much did the Gamecube and Wii sell in their first year?
9m will only be possible if they kickstart the sales with software long before black friday. And since Iwata's job is one the line, I'm sure he doesn't want to overshoot the goals.
How much did the Gamecube and Wii sell in their first year?
Bill Rizer
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3d Mario beats 2d Mario on 3ds!! Great!! (And a confirmation that 3d Land formula is right)
So can we finally update NoA's website? It's fairly horrible.
doh my bad. I think I should sleep now lol
gamecube
through march 2002: 3.8m
through september 2002: 6.88m (first 13 months)
through march 2003: 9.55m
so nintendo would be looking to sell about 3m more than the wii u in roughly the same timespan (the gamecube was only out in japan and america in march 2002, and it had been released in japan two months before it came out in america).
wii
through march 2007: 5.84m
through december 2007: 20.14m (first 14 months)
through march 2008: 24.45m
the wii u would hit about half of what the wii got in that same amount of time. the wii actually outsold the gamecube in the span of six financial quarters.
especially for any third parties. that softaware total is looking more and more like nintendo only.
To be fair, the 3D Mario also had a year headstart.
That's only after a week of sales too!
More about 7 days US (released on March 24th), 11 in Japan (March 20th), 3 in Europe (March 28th)
What Wii U momentum?
Whatever, you're right about Luigi's Mansion 2 sales: they're amazing indeed.
Yup!
Let's see...we're adding:
Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D
Mario and Luigi: Dream Team
Mario Party 3DS
The Legend of Zelda 3DS
Pokemon X and Y
...to the million seller party this year at least. Mario Golf/Fire Emblem might also have a shot, and Yoshi's Island 3DS will break a million if it gets released.
I guess I'm just looking too much at the games we know about. GC had a lot of games that I doubt we'll see on Wii U will before the end of March 2014.
zomgbbqftw
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Oh and just to show the direction of travel the YoY quarterly comparison:
Q42013 - ¥31bn operating loss
Q42012 - ¥21bn operating loss
A worse YoY performance on a quarterly basis. I really don't see how Nintendo go from ¥31bn lost in a quarter to ¥100bn operating profit for the year.
Q42013 - ¥31bn operating loss
Q42012 - ¥21bn operating loss
A worse YoY performance on a quarterly basis. I really don't see how Nintendo go from ¥31bn lost in a quarter to ¥100bn operating profit for the year.
peanutbutterlatte
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But it also has the benefit of being a good game
Lol New Leaf is the least rehashiest Animal Crossing they've ever made.
That actually sounds ok to me considering the situation.
January - at least June will see next to no sales and after that sales depend only their turnaround with Mario Kart, 3D Mario and unannounced software releasing before christmas.