They can try giving some decent discounts for a change!
The best thing on the eshop has been the Mario Kart DLCs and the Wii BC titles discounted at the start like Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime Trilogy.
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Nintendo Quarterly Financial Highlights: 0.94M 3DS, 0.22M Wii U, Amiibo down 60% YoY
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They can try giving some decent discounts for a change!
The best thing on the eshop has been the Mario Kart DLCs and the Wii BC titles discounted at the start like Galaxy 2 and Metroid Prime Trilogy.
Just my two cents, but I think at this point they've made all the units they're going to make. I don't expect any price cut or any more money spent promoting Wii U. If there was a furher price cut last holiday season would've probably been the time.
Good point. I do hope there's a trickle down effect from this of better digital sales from Nintendo.
-Pyromaniac-
Member
Those wii u sales are abysmal and NX is still kinda far away. Going to be a hard 8 months.
They could but we all know they likely won't lol.
There was also Pokken Tournament and Twilight Princess.
Both came in March so were factored in last quarter
LordRaptor
Member
I think there are expectations of pricecuts for the 3DS range, which combined with a major new release should see healthy sales for whats basically a moribund platform this holiday
Ah yeah, that's right.
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
Sammy Samusu
Member
How is this even possible. 3DS is nothing compared to DS.
Maybe the rampant piracy on DS really hurt its software sales.
Prototype Viktor
Member
"Korban, korban my Wii u sales got no fiiiire"
Yoshi
Headmaster of Console Warrior Jugendstrafanstalt
So, phones made about 6.8 mio $ this quarter?In a little less than two days.
Also, looks like a timid impact from Miitomo for Nintendo's debut in the mobile market. The report doesn't comment anything about it either. Let's see how this category will grow with Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem.
(last year's number - this year's number, assuming all the other "other"-income stayed flat yoy)
Exterminieren
Banned
Not unexpected, but ouch.
Also, ORAS has had a great performance- remakes of the least popular generation, on the lowest selling Nintendo handheld, look set to outsell all the other remakes in the series. That's remarkably impressive, and says good things going forward.
Also, ORAS has had a great performance- remakes of the least popular generation, on the lowest selling Nintendo handheld, look set to outsell all the other remakes in the series. That's remarkably impressive, and says good things going forward.
Primethius
Banned
Isn't this the case? I always thought it was commonly accepted that DS piracy hurt it quite a bit, though maybe I'm projecting anecdotal experiences too much.
I was in Toronto at the time when DS was out and everyone pretty much had a flash cart.
It was cheap, easy and effective. You could put at least 10-12 games on a flash cart and there wasn't much in the form of downsides, if any at all.
Maybe a couple of games had anti-piracy measures (IIRC, it was notably just Pokemon) but even those didn't last longer then a couple of days.
I remember that 360 piracy was pretty rampant as well but I've never seen anything quite as widespread and accepted as what happened with the DS.
LordRaptor
Member
I mean, the two biggest successes Nintendo have ever had have been the two most easily and casually susceptible to piracy.
TreasureHunterG
Banned
Nintendo is relying too heavily on NX. If the thing doesn't turn out very well, they might become really troubled.
MisterR
Member
Those sales are amazingly low. It's almost impressive.
I'm still puzzled and frustrated how Nintendo has failed to release MK8 DLC 3.0 and 4.0 - I mean look at that game top of the Wii U charts even 2 years after it's released, easily at around 8.25mil by the end of the year.
Splatoon should reach 5 million before the end of the year which is also amazing.
Splatoon should reach 5 million before the end of the year which is also amazing.
MisterR
Member
Nope, stock slipped after they announced they weren't going to make much off Go. They are at 26.47B MKT CAP and Sony is at 38.11.
Sammy Samusu
Member
With the right games in Japan it should sell at least more than Wii U + 3DS combined.
Also, Nintendo has been doing a lot of great decisions recently. I'm confident about NX.
The west is their biggest problem right now, and it has been for a while.
Stilton Disco
Member
I cannot imagine any scenario where NX is going to sell more than WiiU and 3DS combined.
The combination of capabilites sales from hardcore fans no longer buying both a home and handheld system with the ever increasing marketshare of smartphones is only going to back them further and further into a corner from here on out,and it would take miracle of unprecedented technical innovation far in excess of the Wii and DS to alter that.
kuroneko0509
Member
Ok we are in a sales thread for dicuss about sales.
If someone disagree with me then i like to discuss WHY he disagree with me.
And if you think is boring to read then no one oblige you to read my post.
does XY release helps BW/B2W2 sales tremendously? or BW release helps DPPt sales considering they're on same device unlike XY vs BW? serious question. that's why ArchedThunder mentioned about ORAS isn't a new generation
Boombloxer
Member
We had this discussion a few days ago in a different thread, but yes, they should consider dropping hardware. The NX looks like another mistake.
Nintendo says it's due to in-game dlc. Last year had new Mario Kart and Smash dlc to drive sales, this year had, uh, Fire Emblem map packs?
1st Course
Member
"Nintendo Reports $234 Million Loss On Weak Hardware Sales And Foreign Exchange"
"Nintendo was hurt by foreign exchange rates. The company reported ¥35 billion ($334.2 million) loss in this area, which pushed ordinary income and net income into the red."
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...weak-hardware-sales-and-foreign-exchange.aspx
Exchange rates strikes again.
"Nintendo was hurt by foreign exchange rates. The company reported ¥35 billion ($334.2 million) loss in this area, which pushed ordinary income and net income into the red."
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/...weak-hardware-sales-and-foreign-exchange.aspx
Exchange rates strikes again.
Because Unlike WWHD, no one really wanted tp HD.
Again you go into a super pumped out I am right and you are wrong and if you don't agree then sod off mode.Ok we are in a sales thread for dicuss about sales.
If someone disagree with me then i like to discuss WHY he disagree with me.
And if you think is boring to read then no one oblige you to read my post.
Just take it down a notch will ya.
That's why I said that "Not adjusting forecast" ≠ "Pokemon Go has little to no financial impact", because without Pokemon Go, Nintendo would have adjusted the forecast downward sharply, given the abysmal sales numbers from the 3DS and WiiU. They can maintain that forecast now thanks to Pokemon Go.
Luckily they've turned to mobile gaming.
opticalmace
Member
The gamepad basically screwed them when it comes to cutting cost.
I gave up waiting on a decent sale for Splatoon, nevermind the usual shitshow of getting a multiplayer game a year late. Waiting for the NX version/sequel.
MrSaturn99
Member
I was wondering what was going on with amiibo sales, but I didn't know it was that bad. Hopefully they can get on back on track after the AC misstep.
AyaisMUsikWhore
Member
Even though the cover for the Amiibo decline is due to the fact that there are no new games to use them, I still think that it has less to do with that rather than people just not being interested in them that much. From my understanding, most people were buying them as collectibles than for a particular game so I say... that.. mixed with the fact that I feel Nintendo has been handling their launches for these toys so shitty (scattering exclusives to different regions and stores) that some people may have just got tired of searching and said fuck it. I think that's mostly where the decline comes from. But whatever the numbers say.
I guess, but the thing is seriously in need of a price drop. I'm sure there are many potential buyers out there like myself who want the system, but at this point will not spend that kind of money on it for how long it's been on the market as well as how it compares to the competition in price and value.
Diddy Kong
Banned
They really should. Bundle it with Mario Kart and Smash to boost the userbase online. Why not at this point?
Yeah I don't see that happening.
when your store is the eshop
TheFinalCut
Member
Because they aren't manufacturing any more Wii Us. They're going to sell through the rest of their stock at this price, lowering it would only further increase their loses.
Well when the Wii sales slowed down people attributed and still attribute it that to people simple growing tired of the "gimmick" or "fad" instead of the fact that Nintendo releasing shit for games. So it's pretty unsurprising that folks are trying to make the same connection here with amiibo.