Nintendo, Sony, Capcom Quarterly Data (Apr-Jun 2010) out Tonight

[MaxwellGT2000]

Viper1 said:

mai said:

Viper1 said:

This is only the second time in company history to have a quarterly loss and both were for the exact same reason. 

When did it happen last time? And what are the reasons you're talking about? Just curious. Thanks.

One of the quarters in 2004 or 2005.  Forget the exact ones but I'll research the details later.

The reason is the same here, a one time foreign exchange charge.  Nintendo technically had a $500 million profit but elected to take a $794 million foreign exchange charge which reduced those profits to a reported loss of $288 million.

MaxwellGT2000 said:

Wow the crazy currency fluctuations are hitting hard, I wonder if the 3DS R&D is in there as well, seems like that bad boy would take a good chunk of change to develop

Actually, I bet the R&D was quite inexpensive comapred to what would be expected for a new portable console.  Sharp did all the R&D and the manufacturing for the 3D Parallax Barrier screen.   And much of the other functions are simply enhanced DS functions.  The online features look to be the most costly in terms of R&D expensises.

 

True, I mean they seem to be making a whole new online network for the 3DS, downloading movies and everything. always being online, which likely means a lot more functions like friends able to see if you're online and such.  I guess they could have evaded a lot of R&D with making deals with these companies for their tech, I mean they have the promise of having Nintendo use them exclusively for however many years the 3DS is on market, then Sharp gets to essentially promote their glasses free 3D tech that could become viable for the home in a few years, so you're probably right.