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sethnintendo on 23 July 2012
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kowenicki said:
Mr Khan said:
Troll_Whisperer said:
Isn't the 3DS forecast too optimistic? They must be expecting the XL/2D Mario combination to have a huge impact.

If so, then they would have been predicting too far ahead. 2D Mario is clearly Q3/fiscal Q2

The big problem here is that they pegged their predictions on the Japanese Treasury's confidence that they could reverse deflation, which was only a flash in the pan. Plus i'm not sure if the 3DS has actually hit profitability yet (i think their target for that was fiscal Q2, specifically next month), so we could be in for more bad news.

I think thats a certainty.  Iwata has already said they arent porfitable yet, so this Q1 (and prob Q2) is a write off.  The WiiU launch has to be a very good one or they wont be profitable for the year.  I think its that simple.

Depends on what Nintendo prices the Wii U.  If they decide to take a loss on each system sold then it wouldn't matter how many Wii Us were sold considering it would only add to the losses.  Nintendo has to ride the 3DS for now.   I highly doubt they will price their system where they are losing a lot per system sold.  If anything they would take a 25-75 dollar loss if they priced it at 300.  So in terms of profitability they need to make sure the 3DS wrecks shop since the 3DS will be profitable soon.