Mr Khan on 27 October 2011
| bmmb1 said: I think (though I may be wrong) that some of you may be over-attributing these losses to development costs and sales - I am under the impression the that bulk of the losses is due to exchange rate issues, with the difference this time around (vs. the past) that sales were not good enough to offset the exchange rates losses. |
That's what i'm getting out of much of this. The 3DS losses are supposed to be slimmer, so the main factor is that they just haven't been offering people much of anything to buy outside the 3DS
The problem is the latter part will continue to be an issue until fall 2012 when Wii U comes out, and that's only if they position Wii U to be at a profit from day one (which they should unless they've really overpowered the tablet).
The bright spot is the 3DS Japanese sales explosion from Monster Hunter, which will give them revenue in a currency that's worth something, and that the 3DS loss will flip once they get economies of scale into higher gear
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
