Erik Aston on 07 May 2009
For fart's sake. It is still up to what software Nintendo announces for Fall/Holiday. Projecting sales to be flat/go down doesn't mean a lot.
Nintendo took a massive wallop from exchange rates, and they totally blew it last holiday with Animal Crossing and Wii Music... But overall their sales and profits still went up from the previous year. Now things are (still) up to their ability to deliver exciting new software experiences this year.
"[Our former customers] are unable to find software which they WANT to play."
"The way to solve this problem lies in how to communicate what kind of games [they CAN play]."
Satoru Iwata, Nintendo President. Only slightly paraphrased.
