Board 8 > Nintendo announces its earnings for fiscal year 2011 tonight at 2 AM.

(+) Yeah! (+)

In all likelihood, it's going to be the first loss they've had for a full year in around 30 years. Let's hope the loss is less than expected so the stock goes up.

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Then again if it's bad it'll put pressure on them to be good.

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Oh, I didn't know Ninty was go a pretty bad shape.

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Hmm, I might order in and check this out.

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why would you need to order food for a 2am press release

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yeah, this is just a financial report.

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XD NINTENDO LLLOOOOOOOOOOOO

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It's their most important earnings release of the year!

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spoilers they lost money

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Time to either buy a bunch more of their stock, or to sell everything all that I've got of theirs....

*tosses a coin*

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So, list of mistakes Nintendo made over the past year:
-Confusing everyone with the Wii U
-Terrible 3DS launch
-"Miyamoto is retiring aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" fiasco

What else?

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The other big thing isn't their fault, but the yen has been really strong the past year, hurting their revenue from outside Japan.

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From: Icon Tang | #006
why would you need to order food for a 2am press release

It's not a whole reason. It's a partial suggestion. I didn't have a chance to go to the grocery store earlier so food supplies are running low anyway. I had debated between going for a second lengthy jog tonight or doing something with the computer.

This simply pushed me toward one decision.

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From: red sox 777 | Posted: 4/25/2012 11:51:46 PM | #001
Let's hope the loss is less than expected so the stock goes up.

Especially since I own it!

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Oh whoops, I forgot to account for daylight savings time. It's actually at 3 AM EDT.

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So are you gonna do an analysis and explain to us just WHY they're losing money this year?

Are their margins getting worse? Some sort of odd one-time expense? Or just plain ol boring revenues being down?

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The 3DS was sold at a loss for most of the year, along with a strong yen. They'll probably expect a return to profitability in the coming year.

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Revenues were down pretty far, due to weak 3DS sales and because the other systems are old and past their prime sales-wise. Strong yen hurts too.

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TWO MINUTES TILL FINANCIAL EXPLOSION

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Any information yet?

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Yep. 43.2 billion yen loss, expect 20 billion yen profit for the next year.

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Nintendo reported losses of 43.2 billion yen, or 532.3 million dollars. Back in January, they had predicted losses of 65 billion yen, so they did a good bit better than predicted back then, mainly because the yen has weakened somewhat since then.

Not sure how these earnings compare to analyst forecasts, or more importantly, what the market was thinking.

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I'll be buying a Wii U close to release to help you out Nintendo, don't even worry about it

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Looks like they beat analysts expectations by a bit too- about 10% less in losses than the analyst consensus. But it doesn't necessarily mean much; for example we just saw Netflix stock plunge 14% after beating analyst expectations.

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Also, hardware / software update:

Nintendo 3DS
Super Mario 3D Land -- 5.84 million
Mario Kart 7 -- 5.24 million
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D -- 2.61 million

Wii
Wii Sports -- 79.60 million
Mario Kart Wii -- 32.44 million
Wii Sports Resort -- 30.14 million
Wii Play -- 28.02 million
New Super Mario Bros. Wii -- 26.26 million
Wii Fit -- 22.67 million
Wii Fit Plus -- 20.48 million
Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- 10.79 million
Super Mario Galaxy -- 10.68 million

Nintendo DS
New Super Mario Bros. -- 29.09 million
Mario Kart DS -- 22.57 million
Animal Crossing: Wild World -- 11.62 million
Super Mario 64 DS -- 10.37 million

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Wii Fit Plus -- 20.48 million
Super Smash Bros. Brawl -- 10.79 million

how does this happen

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Whoops, forgot the hardware and links!

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/hard_soft/index.html
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/sales/software/3ds.html

Nintendo 3DS
Hardware: 17.13 million
Software: 45.42 million

Wii
Hardware: 95.85 million
Software: 818.46 million

Nintendo DS
Hardware: 151.52 million
Software: 900.31 million

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Well, obviously the superior game sold more. I mean, the inferior game there is the worst abomination in the history of video games, so it's not difficult to be superior to it.

*Looks at Wii Sports* Well.......

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wii numbers dominated by non-traditional games does not bode well for next gen, unless they can capture that cultural phenomenon thing again

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What's the total sales numbers for the PS2? With only 95 million sold now, it seems that Wii is unlikely to surpass it.

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The PS2 is still the best-selling gaming system ever at 155 million.

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DS looks to be in striking range then.

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4 of those 155 million were me

damn you DRE

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Also, the PS2 sold over 1.5 billion units of software. Not gonna see another one of those.

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Of course we will, probably this coming generation. The market just grows every generation.

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The PS2 had the benefit of complete domination within a generation, something that is unlikely to happen again with the console situation as it is now. Not even the Wii was able to sell anywhere near the PS2.

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ps2 was the golden age lol. it'll take a miracle the way gaming is headed x.x

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Oh I agree that gaming was better in the past. But growth in the number of systems and games sold is the reality. PS2 beat Wii because it had an absurdly huge slice of the pie, but this coming generation, a system may only need to reach the Wii's current market share to beat the PS2.

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I wasn't talking about consoles as a whole. The likelihood of another individual system reaching the same level of sales in both hardware and software is pretty unlikely in the coming generation.

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I feel like the DS has just enough juice left to pass PS2. Especially with Black and White 2 coming out.

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300 million for the next console generation should be attainable. We may wind up fairly close to that this generation before it's over, as the 360 and PS3 are still selling pretty well. In that case a console would only need 50% market share to match the PS2.

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DS might. Tough to say when the PS2 still sells millions a year.

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Nintendo is such a laughable company today.

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Also, Nintendo expects to sell 18 million 3DSs, 2.5 million DSs, and 10 millions Wiis / WiiUs in the next year.

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only 10 million Wii U's? I'm not sure if thats a good or bad thing...

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10 million Wii Us seems way less than I'd expect, but what do I know

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It's the Wii and WiiU combined, so who knows.

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Nintendo 2 most major problems-
1.Force gamers to use gimmick controls
If I want to play Skyward Sword without Motion Plus,or without swinging everything,give me the option to do so
If I want to play Spirit Tracks without the touch screen and like a normal 2D Zelda-again,give me the option
Even while the controls were good in both of them for me,there are alot of people that don't seem to like them
Just...don't force,make a "classic controls" option in all of your games

2.Hating on different consoles -
I know it might be ugly to see Mario on Iphone because it's like Nintendo is admitting defeat...but this is the world we live in
Mobile games are getting very very popular and releasing games on them can make tons of money