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Nintendo Quarterly Financial Highlights: 0.94M 3DS, 0.22M Wii U, Amiibo down 60% YoY
- Thread starter SlipperyFishes
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Well definitely, outside of a pkmn bump.
I wasn't arguing that.
I said:
If it can find a decent baseline.
Thanks!
Surprised 2011 was its best year considering the "botched" launch. I guess that price drop +Kart and 3D Land really helped that holiday.
Yup. A lot.
Holidays 2011 was an insane holidays for 3DS, with almost 500,000 unit the week of Christmast in Japan and 1,650,000 unit in December NPD (For a comparation, the bigger NPD for PS4 ever is a bit over 1.58 million)
Nintendo shipped 8.36 million 3DS during the last quarter of 2011, which is basically the same of PS4 record last holidays of 8.4 million.
SuperLeviathan
Member
That doesn't speak too highly of the evergreen nature of Amiibo's. People should still be buying the existing ones.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Animal Crossing was such a huge mistake for an amiibo line.
I wonder if they're even still producing them.
I wonder if they're even still producing them.
SuperLeviathan
Member
But no one really expected the bottom to fall out like this.
I'm at a loss as to what they can do for the Wii U. Every single AAA has been bundled with it, and there was even a two-for bundle with the Smash/Splatoon set last year. Where do they even go from here? Three games?
I'm at a loss as to what they can do for the Wii U. Every single AAA has been bundled with it, and there was even a two-for bundle with the Smash/Splatoon set last year. Where do they even go from here? Three games?
but why, if they already own the ones they want?
SuperLeviathan
Member
I mean, the Amiibo's already out there should be attracting people who haven't already bought them. The fact that there's been such a heavy decline says that that isn't happening.
Katana_Strikes
Member
To put that in perspective, the PS4 can do that in 1 month in the US alone.
Of course WiiU is dead and has been since day dot so it's unsurprising.
The animal crossing Flood was a complete disaster
kunonabi
Member
There were just too many too quickly. They should have just put out the core 5 or 6 and be done with it. Although, that would mean no Lottie and that would be a shame.
Bitanator
Member
You still need games and new toys to life to attract new buyers. Nobody new is buying Smash Bros because nobody is buying the Wii U. They need a new game which they do not have. If they can do a Pokemon line I expect a huge increase again
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Well, that and the fact that the games that used them weren't great. If they had released a full-fledged Wii U AC game, they would have done better.
I get the impression that they were planning an AC for Wii U, had the Amiibo molds ready to go and took a look at Wii U sales and decided to dump the assets into a Mario Party instead and save the AC game for Nx/mobile, the AC Amiibo were ready so why not get something out for the holiday? Wouldn't be surprised if they're forward compatible with the next AC.
The Animal Crossing amiibo are so unwanted to the point where japanese sites sell them for a few bucks and nobody on ebay wants them. Probably didnt help that amiibo festival is trash.
Not feeling good about Mario Party Star Rush either, i dont feel like amiibo for that game will help their sales.
Not feeling good about Mario Party Star Rush either, i dont feel like amiibo for that game will help their sales.
What does Nintendo need that power for when third parties who would use it largely aren't going to be touching such a platform anyway?
I only expect Japanese third parties from 3DS, some console player investments and first party investment. THe Japanese industry largely doesn't care about power beyond the 6th gen level, and perhaps maybe seventh gen if they are really feeling ambitious(SE are one of a kind these days)
I see no point to them wasting effort on that when their default option is far beyond what is necessary.
Reading this makes GTA V still being in the top 10 in NPD even more amazing.
It's assumed one of the reasons it stays in the top ten is because of new console sales.
So if more Wii U's were being bought that could have meant more amiibo being bought.
Yea the NX can't get here fast enough.
Crazyorloco
Member
Yup. It there's not much to look forward to. Im replaying old games. Hitting the backlog hard. We need the NX.
yeah, to keep selling something like amiibo, you gotta have new users constantly, because old users will eventually stop buying them
even tho, there a lot of people who bough them without having a wii u anyways
Astral Dog
Member
well, yeah, but Wii U was a disaster since the beggining and its on its last days with barely any release.
3DS is giving its all due to the strenght of its lineup and price.
Astral Dog
Member
as for the numbers, unless Nintendo screws up really, really bad again NX will sell much better as that is much of a successor to
Astral Dog
Member
as for the numbers, unless Nintendo screws up really, really bad again NX will sell much better than Wii U easily as that is much of a successor to 3DS and a "new idea".
we just need a simple, easy to understand product at an affordable price, hope Nintendo wont make the same mistakes again.
edit: oops double post
we just need a simple, easy to understand product at an affordable price, hope Nintendo wont make the same mistakes again.
edit: oops double post
Memorabilia
Member
YES! Wii U fire sales in 3, 2, 1...
It'd make too much sense to drop the price on Wii U. So it won't happen until well after the NX releases.
(Not that it matters at this point)
It'd make too much sense to drop the price on Wii U. So it won't happen until well after the NX releases.
(Not that it matters at this point)
OfficerRaichu15
Member
Sadly I think Ninte do's incompetence really is hitting them sadly. Hopefully thr NX is good cause if not Nintendo might have a big problem...
SwiftDeath
Member
Nintendo won't be the ones to drop the price of the Wii U.
Any Wii U fire sales will be the retailers taking loss on them to clear inventory of them but that likely won't be a lot as Nintendo stopped manufacturing more Wii U's earlier this year I believe. As such there won't be a glut of Wii U supply so fire sales will really likely just be that, extremely limited.
Also obligatory
I can't believe super Mario bros 2 outsold smash bros and ocarina of time and almost outsold 3D land. As a huge fan of Mario, it's just not good.
outunderthestars
Banned
This is pretty much exactly what I think as well.
Memorabilia
Member
Nintendo won't be the ones to drop the price of the Wii U.
Any Wii U fire sales will be the retailers taking loss on them to clear inventory of them but that likely won't be a lot as Nintendo stopped manufacturing more Wii U's earlier this year I believe. As such there won't be a glut of Wii U supply so fire sales will really likely just be that, extremely limited.
Also obligatory
Lol I love this meme.
Yeah, I basically agree. It seems Nintendo decided a while ago to keep marching to the beat of their own drummer, as per usual. Keeping the price stable was essentially a tacit admission they felt there was no way they were going to gain significant market share, regardless of the console price. Whether that's right or wrong is pretty much irrelevant at this point.