tbone51 said:
Lawlight said: But I guess most of the profits came from those 9.9M Amiibo sales. Make them for cheap in China and sell them for $20. |
You think most profits came from amiibo? Cmon now. First of all they are $13 msrp. Second they aren't that cheap.
Edit: let's say nintendo makes $8 for each amiibo (hint it's way less), that would come out to a profit of $80mil of the entire year, so easily no!
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Actually they sold around 20m for 9 months, let say they have only $6 profit from every amiibo, that around $120m profit for 9 months, that's not bad at all from just a toy.
OneKartVita said:
tbone51 said:
Nah, they both definitely helped out alot, Probably did about 15-25 percent of all nintendo profits (splatoon+smm)
There are many other factors to consider that made them money. Like...
DLC: mk8+ssb definitely made them a ton of profits alone
Amiibo: sold 20mil+ this year
Games that weren't expensive to make because of reused material! Triforce/ac/fe/ml/etc
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Well splatoon sold 4m.
4m x 60$ (it's 65 on amazon) is 250$. Do you think the game cost over $50m to make. It looks super cheap compared to modern day AAA. So why wouldn't roughly 200m of their profit be from splatoon?
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Actually Splatoon in Europe and Japan is around $40 and in US is $60, so lets count only $40 for game, 4m x $40 is $160m. For instance Witcher 3 development with whole marketing cost around $80m, Splatoon had strong marketing, but even with strong marketing I dont think it costed more than $50m, add to that around $10m shiping and sales costs, that means Nintendo made at least $100m (but relaisticly around 120m becuse game cost $60 in US), profit from Splatoon alone till 31. December.