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Sales-Age: NTDOY Q4 earnings report
- Thread starter Cheesemeister
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May be oldz already, but Eurogamer had an item on this that mentions some European software salesnumbers:
Not bad.
Not bad.
Thunder Monkey
Banned
So by March they should be at the 23-24 million unit mark?
Excellent.
Excellent.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Normally they do a separate release with a data sheet that includes software shipment numbers for titles whose total software shipment is above one million units. You can expect this release tomorrow if they choose to do one.
The URL will likely be:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2008/080125e.pdf
This URL is NOT active right now
The URL will likely be:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2008/080125e.pdf
This URL is NOT active right now
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
starship said:
Yep. This would easily place them above any Sony, Sega, or (obviously) Microsoft year ever.
Eteric Rice
Member
Speaking of rise to heaven, they should attach Nintendo products to NASA's ships. They could be used as propulsion.
Pureauthor
Member
JoeMartin said:
Congratulations, Capt. Obvious. He added the 'obviously' there for a reason.
Stumpokapow said:
They already made more than 1 billion last year right? I can't seem to recall Sony, MS or Sega ever doing more than 1 billion either. Maybe I'm wrong though. Anyway, Nintendo is becoming very big with these profits, I mean 3 billion a year is even more than what google is earning.
EDIT: It seems that google has grown and has past past the 3 billion in 2006, they are expecting even more in fiscal 2007.
farnham said:
:lol Did you hear that from spwolf or doicare?
PS3 is FAR behind Wii in Europe. In fact, most of the debating that goes on in the weekly PAL threads are about PS3 and 360 sales in "mainland" Europe and the like. PS3 IS more popular than Wii, though, in a couple of PAL countries like New Zealand, Switzerland, etc., but these are really just white noise when it comes to worldwide sales.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Britprog said:
I'm not sure. It'd be odd for Nintendo to do a double lynchpin product launch in the same month, and especially odd to not have announced a title by the quarter that it's released in. Q2 is probably more likely.
Cheesemeister
Member
The US market is open, and NTDOY is up over 64, having closed last night at 63.20...
$2.4 billion profit in 9 months! 
- By the end of March Wii will have shipped 24.34 million, so will surpass GC's LTD of 21.72 million any day now.
- DS sw sales have already surpassed total GBA sw sales in Japan and Europe (+ other).
- Already, Nintendo will reach its 300 million total fiscal year sw sales, the target Iwata talked about after last year's results.
- Nintendo has revised their Wii and DS shipments upwards, every quarter:
Wii = 14 million --> 16.5 million --> 17.5 million --> 18.5 million
DS = 22 million --> 26 million --> 28 million --> 29.5 million
Amazing figures really! Rise to heaven indeed.
- By the end of March Wii will have shipped 24.34 million, so will surpass GC's LTD of 21.72 million any day now.
- DS sw sales have already surpassed total GBA sw sales in Japan and Europe (+ other).
- Already, Nintendo will reach its 300 million total fiscal year sw sales, the target Iwata talked about after last year's results.
- Nintendo has revised their Wii and DS shipments upwards, every quarter:
Wii = 14 million --> 16.5 million --> 17.5 million --> 18.5 million
DS = 22 million --> 26 million --> 28 million --> 29.5 million
Amazing figures really! Rise to heaven indeed.
Britprog said:
The market is about growth not just big numbers. This was a fantastic year for them in both regards, but even if they maintain this sort of dominance, as far as investors are concerned they need to grow even larger for it to be a company to keep their eye on. It is not negative spin, they are just talking about their potential for further growth in the future.
Count Dookkake
Member
perfectchaos007 said:
Wait until, uh... What game(s) are we supposed to be waiting for before we admit the truth?
Well, the concern has been posted in all the articles from the financial press also, so they're just quoting, and it creates more dramaBritprog said:
It is a concern for the analysts because Nintendo shares are valued so highly. They're asking how is Nintendo going to maintain its sales and growth, which is valid.
IMO, there is significant growth to be had in Wii business, and part procurement problems are due to ease soon, so manufacture should rise a good amount, and Wii Fit has yet to launch outside Japan. As for DS, 30 million units in one year is a heck of a lot, and they may match it next year, but they would need more new innovative sw or a redesign for Japan, because sales will almost certainly be down in the region (from this year) otherwise.
In terms of system selling sw, which is key here, I don't believe Nintendo has anything to worry about. They have shown they are the strongest publisher and developer in the world in this regard and will no doubt have a line of innovative titles waiting in the wings for Wii, and I'm expecting some more surprises for DS.
I'm expecting another strong year for Nintendo 08-09, but they're unlikely to grow at the same rate as 07-08.
Talamius said:
If they haven't made it yet it should be prepared ASAP, nothing like a bit of a history lesson to really turn the screw, especially how Sony swaggered into this generation like they were invincible or something, oh how times change.
Anyway, going by those figures, Ninty made 2.43 BILLION DOLLARS of profit in 9 months? holy shit, that has to be the largest profit by a console maker ever, again, the profits per year chart that resides somwhere here needs updating soon.
Im trying to find that.. but it was in 2003 or something.. it was shortly before he announced the PSX (PS2 supreme only in Japan)SovanJedi said:
Well but there were other bold statements.. like Peter Moore saying.. "Nintendo gets all the 5 year olds and once they get some money and grow up we take them..s o yeah thanks Nintendo... " or something like that...
of course both are nothing against yamauchi
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Shiggy said:
The DS is now second in Japan, fourth in Europe, and seventh in the US. Next targets are passing the GB in Japan, and passing the SNES in USA. Both of these should happen this year. The rest of the US systems are 30+ million, the rest of the European systems are 40+ million. Can the DS be the worldwide number one ever? I'd say so.
Pureauthor
Member
Stumpokapow said:
I demand party hats for the celebration.
farnham said:
Indeed, both Sony and Microsoft have heavily borrowed from Nintendos "How to insult the opposition and look good doing so" Playbook, the problem is, it appears they only read circa 1997-2004 and we all know what happened during that period of Nintendos history.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Pureauthor said:
Given that next month I should cross 100 DS games and that I've purchased 3 DS's (1 phat, 2 lite), I'd say Nintendo owes me the party hat.
D.Lo
Member
I can't see why more isn't possible. There's another re-design in it, and as far as the type of software that defines the platform is concerned there is plenty of grunt - it's much further ahead in the tech curve then the original Game Boy and GBA were in their times, particularly in screen quality and form factor, which are both top shelf for its category IMO.ksamedi said:
Add to this third parties have only now gotten their act together on the damn thing, and 2008 could be an even bigger year IMO. Market saturation in Japan will slow it in that region, but Europe could easily make up for it if the right software keeps coming. And there's still a lot of potential growth in the US.
IMO the DS total is up to Nintendo. If they string it out like the original Game Boy, the sky isn't even a limit. And with PSP software sales floundering (ie the PSP business model is a total failure) Sony is in no position to pressure them on a timetable for a new machine next time around.