Geez their cash reserves are like $14b, its on the same page! But its from 17b last year (I think), so yeah its from huge hits on their cash deposits this year. So maybe they are investing in stuff and the yen an' shit
 

Those numbers aren't dollars there yen and only the figures after (cash and deposits) are cash in the bank the rest is assests such as buildings and manufacturing equipment Nintendo owns.

No, you look at where it says 'total assets'.

But their total current assests, not their deposits, is what is termed as cash reserve. Otherwise, you know , Sony might cease to exist.

Their deposits is what keeps them out of debt.

MS, Sony and Nintendo losing money.

This not good at all.

Hear that?

It's the sound of a million dicks cumming.

Yes thats their deposits. Reserves is that plus some other stuff ( I think products etc. out there thats about to make them money anyway).

Word search for cash reserves

http://www.thetechblock.com/articles/2012/nintendo-reports-first-ever-annual-loss-blames-rivals-slowing-sales/

http://hexus.net/gaming/news/industry/38497-nintendo-suffers-first-ever-annual-loss/

http://www.cntechnews.info/nintendo-barricaded-hardware-suffered-a-huge-loss-of-much-needed-cross-platform-expansion/

I don't see a problem really, still doing well.

They had a decrease of 350,849 in millions of Yen in cash.

They also had an increase of 138,095 in millions of Yen in their short term investments.

So some of that cash was invested in short term securities.

They also probably lost some value "if" some of cash reserve was in US dollars due to exchange losses.

To see how much the high Yen effected them this year just look at the following:

"The operating loss was 37.3 billion yen. Due to exchange losses totaling 27.7 billion yen, the ordinary loss was 60.8 billion yen, and the net loss was 43.2 billion yen."

We don't how exactly Nintendo used the rest of their spent cash reserve though.  Also their "current assets"  haven't reduced in value that much in the year.  The total current assets went from 1,468,706  to  1,140,786 in millions of Yen.

Definition of 'Current Assets'

1. A balance sheet account that represents the value of all assets that are reasonably expected to be converted into cash within one year in the normal course of business. Current assets include cash, accounts receivable, inventory, marketable securities, prepaid expenses and other liquid assets that can be readily converted to cash .  - source

I wonder what they spent 4.5 billion dollars on.