gumby_trucker said:
The most pressing matter at hand here is the launch price of Wii U, isn't it? If I understood Nintendo's financial breafing correctly they have lost what amounts to $355 million (27.7 billion yen) due to changes in the exchange rate. This is a horrendous amount of money but not exactly threatening to the company, at least not yet. |
That number is changes in the exchange rate to what they predicted, if I'm not wrong, so if they predicted for the year an exchange of 110, but the exchange was 90, the income difference is 355 million US$. I think most of the huge losses Nintendo had last fiscal year come from the exchange rate, and the 3DS price cut, as they had to sell them at a loss. Look at the cost of Nintendo consoles and games in Japan, they have compensated the losses outside Japan with good revenue in their homeland, where they don't have problems with the exchange rates.
It's not impossible to see here a Wii U launch cost in EUR/US$ that isn't as we used to see, with a cost of 25000 JPY, but 300 US$/€, not 250.
