Big 3 Gaming Divisions Profits since 2000

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yo_john117 said:

Grimes said:

Acevil said:

yo_john117 said:

Why was the the latest year for the Wii not very profitable?

Some accounting thing they apparently do every 5 years from what some people have told me. I know the trick (roughly), but I didn't know they did it once to account for 5 years. 

Next year should be a good year again. 

Nintendo holds much of its profits in foreign currency. If those currencies do poorly then eventually, Nintedo has to make adjustments to compensate.

Ok that makes sense. The yen must not be doing so good.

If yen is strong and its their main currency, they wont be getting much money since most their sales is in dollars or euro. If the yen is weak and most sales is in other currencys then they should be making more money since their main currency is low when compared. Of coruse in real life a high main currency is always good, but when you do ficial reports like this, it can make the numbers seem smaller than they actually are.