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Even when Nintendo claims the 3DS and Wii U are profitable and Mario Kart comes out, Nintendo still cannot manage to bring the coimpany to profit. The company must be horribly misrun if that's the case.

Well the Quality of Life is another platform from Nintendo! Will the new fitness console start bringing profit for Nintendo??



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Tell me what it is and Ill give you my opinion...



Just to clarify on the first point, when Nintendo or Sony claim a product is "profitable", they're often only referring to selling the console for more than the cost of its parts. When you take into account R&D costs and the massive fixed costs these businesses have (wages, electricity, rent, tax etc.), overall profitability is a long way off.

As for QOL... We don't really know much about it. The little information Nintendo have released so far give the impression that it is going to be an outdated amalgamation of Wii/DS era software (Wii Fit, Brain Age etc.) that won't attract anyone in a mobile phone/tablet era.

I think it comes down to whether it's hardware or just software. If QOL is a software suite for existing mobile devices I think it could have limited success. If it's a unique piece of hardware it will be a flop of Virtual Boy proportions.



When the hell are they going to even introduc it? Non-wearable, non-mobile tech hmmmmm



No, but it doesn't have to save Nintendo. It just has to bring them some extra profit.

Lots of Japanese game companies actually have other non-game related divisions, Sega-Sammy have slot machines for example, I think Konami has health or medical tech or something and there are others.



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Still don't even know what it is.



Sigs are dumb. And so are you!

Soundwave said:
No, but it doesn't have to save Nintendo. It just has to bring them some extra profit.

Lots of Japanese game companies actually have other non-game related divisions, Sega-Sammy have slot machines for example, I think Konami has health or medical tech or something and there are others.

Slot machines was all Sammy, and really that's what's carrying the company.

Though your point is well made. Nintendo Pachinko parlors could do gangbusters in Japan



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

No. Smash will save Nintendo.



If you demand respect or gratitude for your volunteer work, you're doing volunteering wrong.

Nintendo as a company itself doesn't need saving. They have millions upon millions of dollars in banks.

Now if you mean save the Wii U/3DS well, probably not.

However, Nintendo's main attraction are their consoles so its those that need saving.



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Nintendo doesn't need "saving". They're already well on their way to "recovery", and honestly, their losses were only in comparison to the massive gains they had made in height of the DS/Wii years. Nintendo as a company has never yet been "in trouble", and they still have billions of dollars in the bank, just sitting around. As someone pointed out before, they have enough money saved up, that they could post losses for the next decade, easily, and not "go under" from it. And quite frankly, it's Nintendo. They're not going to do that.

All this QoL shit is going to do, is give them more revenue in NON-gaming avenues, which is what they're aiming to do. It's not going to be gaming itself, Iwata has said that, and it's not going to affect their gaming business, which they will never stop.

 

 

 

P.S. FYI, just to anyone in general, suspiciously sounding as if you're cheering for a game company to fail, just because you prefer another one, is both pathetically sad, and a waste of anyone's time. Just like what you like, play what you play, and go on with your life.