Nintendo's silence on WiiU to be broken soon

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trestres said:

noname2200 said:

I recall reading somewhere that the only years in recent history when Nintendo has failed to reach 100 billion yen are when they've released new hardware. If true (and I'm not saying it is), it kind of puts a damper on expectations.

Toddifer said:
Nintendo needs to do a "3rd Party" only Nintendo Direct. I'm excited for some of the first party titles coming (but come on, who didn't know Mario Kart et. al were coming anyway?), but I need some reassurance that 3rd parties are still willing to bring solid content to the WiiU post "launch window" before I'm willing to take the plunge. 

They did this recently for the 3DS.

The 3DS has enough third-party games to warrant attention. The Nintendo Direct was still underwhelming.

But is that figure of operating profit alone? Or is that net sales or gross profit?

I'm afraid I don't recall. Sorry! But it was in the context of how the promise wasn't as big a deal as it sounded, so I assume it went along with whatever Iwata promised.