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Mazty on 25 October 2012
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Soundwave said:
Mazty said:
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The important part of that article was completely missed.

"Chief Executive Officer Satoru Iwata, 52, reduced the full- year net income forecast 70 percent "

Nintendo are finally getting bitten for continuing bad market practise in an evolving market.


I think they were betting heavily on NSMB2 + 3DS XL skyrocketing the 3DS especially in the US, but from the report, Iwata sounds a bit frustrated that they can't get the US market going, especially relative to the fact that it's 3x-4x the market size of Japan.

Yeah totally. The thing is, their market analysts should be fired. It was clear that mobile gaming, for users, devs and publishers was becoming far more focused on smartphones and tablets. To have rested their hopes on 3D gaming which isn't particuarly popular (uptake of 3D TV's & Monitors) in a market which offers more competition then ever before was a sure fire way to run into problems. Why they don't bring out a Nintendo App that let's you buy Nintendo games for smart phones is beyond me (can this already be done?)