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Nintendo sees $8.1billion US Revenue
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I don't think Nintendo can just tell other people to stop what they're doing and start making FPSs, nor is there one collective thinktank behind what games will be made for the system. It looks like every company is getting in one FPS each, and if it's shitty, it's because of that individual company and not Nintendo's fault.
If anything, Nintendo should be bitching (and is) at other developers to start making good games.
of course this does not say anything about THEIR costs and thus, profits
RE? However it will work? Goddamn wiimote! Use it to smash, axe and whack zombies!
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I know it is a port, but have they tried the Wii version of Godfather yet? I love using the wiimote to bash people with bats and/or to push them out of windows. Good times, good times....
Exactly. If you want gun battles, then the 360 is heaven. The Wii can't compete with the lineup there.
But there are plenty of us who can't stand console 3D shooters.
There are no Wiis in Arizona.
...or at least, there haven't been any in any store I have walked into since late December. (I saw a stack of them in a Best Buy around then.)
And the DS' library was a lot worse in the fifth month since its release.
The Wii has Zelda, Excite Truck, Trauma Centre, Metal Slug, Elebits, Super Swing Golf, Sonic, WarioWare, Cooking Mama, Kororinpa (you know, that marble game) and Super Paper Mario on the way next week.
All the DS had at this stage was a Mario 64 port and WarioWare.
Your friends are idiots. I've got a nice little collection of really good games going for the Wii already, including Wario Ware, Excite Truck, Kororinpa, Elebits, Metal Slug, and Sonic.
And the list is only that short because I don't have enough money to buy all the games I want (well, not enough money to do it without dipping into the rainy day fund). But with Galaxy, Disaster, Mario Strikers (online w00t), Paper Mario, and MP3 coming out, as well as the likelihood of NeoGeo games hitting the VC, I don't understand where people think there's a drought.
That's what stood out to me the most.
That stuck out for me as well
That's a measurement of how much the total value of their non-Japanese investments fluctuates with the money market.
Say you had $100 in USD and the exchange rate in Japan was 100:1 last year and 125:1 this year. From the Japanese point of view, your $100 USD investment would've been worth 10,000 JPY the first year, and 12,500 JPY the second year. Even though your investment didn't change, you've "gained" 2,500 JPY.
Now imagine you had to estimate that based on (a) what you think the Yen will be worth next year compared to all other currencies you hold, (b) estimating how much the foreign investments will grow, and (c) the total worth of all non-Japanese Nintendo holdings, including all of NoA, all of NoE, etc ...
I probably wouldn't even come this close (off by $253 million USD).
I am so glad I understand this now.
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I think the foreign exchange rate, as well as the performance of the DS and Wii, surprised everybody, including Nintendo.
When exactly was the estimate made?
That 'joke' died a long long time ago. Truth be told, I'm pretty sure it was stillborn.
But you can ever take our memes!
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it sucks because it's giving the impression that this is all the Wii is about. Nintendo is also in the incredible hard position of trying not to flood its own system with in-house and first-party titles that will detract from third-party sales and support.
so basically, if you've bought a Wii, have faith that things will slowly improve. devs know the Wii is popular. the controller is accurate (as evidenced by the data dumps people have been posting to the net from the wiimote's interface). i'm thinking that, as with the DS, things will suddenly click.
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Given that this is an annual report, I'd assume that the estimate was made one year ago.
Estimating changes in the currency market a year in advance is pretty much impossible, and you generally have to just look at current trends and assume they'll continue.
Sounds like an awful job until the one time someone asks "Yeah... well what does that have to do with the price of tea in China?" and you can look at them menacingly and say "Everything." The other 364 days a year I bet it sucks.
What is an Xbox?!
A miserable little pile of gigabits!
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I don't get it.
Is he saying it was not by Nintendo's hand that the Wii was brought into the world?
Exactly. Nintendo has been making a profit on each Wii sold since day 1, whereas Sony has been losing upwards of $200 on each PS3 sold. They're actually in better shape financially because the PS3 is selling so poorly. In the long run though...they better hope Blu-Ray wins the format war because the PS3 is not going to be paying itself off, likely ever. Think Xbox 1, but worse. They're taking a bigger loss on each unit and selling fewer of them, so what developer support there is, may very well decline unless things change in the next year.
What is a console?
A miserable little pile of secrets!
Oh man, you were beaten like a naughty puppy.
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*facepalm*
Profits will exceed $1 billion.
Upwards of $300, actually, specifically on the 20GB model that's rumored to be discontinued.
But yeah, it's looking like Sony's game division will be in for some hurt over the next few years unless the PSP gets a big boost or Sony can manage to sell the PS3 at a market-friendly price without breaking the bank.
Thank you for this unrelated rumor.
well I heard that I'm banging more chicks than you are at a ratio of 3:1. As a completely undocumented statistic, take it for what it's worth. ;-)
Let's not forget that the Wii's $250 price point was done specifically so that the console unit itself would be profitable from day one. Now I have to wonder how many of those 'olol $249 GameCube 1.5 Nintendoomed' prophets already own a Wii.
*generic Dr. Evil picture*
It should say: "It EATS money!"