| Farsala said: OT: Anyways imo the panic pricecut Nintendo did after 5 months pretty much masked the real numbers a regular handheld would do. Thus the peak year was very early and we might see another peak year after another pricecut. But for the years without pricecuts, it may just be "mediocre" as compared with the peak years. |
I think you're on to something, if we look at it shipments for each calendar year, Nintendo shipped more in 2011 than 2012. If we look at the Fiscal Year shipments, 2011 and 2012 were practically the equal.
Anyways, since the OP uses shipments in each calendar year wouldn't the title be "Lowest shipment year..." be more appropiate. Also, shouldn't the numbers look like this:
Shipped:
15.04m - 2011
14.81m - 2012
5.13m - 2013(ending Sep 30)
=34.98m LtD shipped as of Sep 30 (Nintendo's own numbers)
Where did the 14.58m for 2011 come from? It gets kinda confusing using Calendar year with Fiscal Year numbers.
I think we should switch to fiscal year numbers 'cuz it's what Nintendo uses.
FY10 – 3.61m
FY11 – 13.53m
FY12 – 13.98m
FY13 – 3.89m
Or quarterly:
FY: ------Q1-----Q2-----Q3------Q4
'10: ------ , ------- , ------- , 3.61m
'11: 0.70m – 2.37m – 8.36m - 2.10m
'12: 1.86m – 3.20m – 7.65m - 1.24m
'13: 1.40m – 2.49m, ------- , -------
If we go by Calendar year, 2013 looks really bad. Right now it looks like 3DS is doing okay. So, perhaps it is better to look at Fiscal Year numbers. Q1, Jan-Mar (Q4 FY12), is really holding 2013 down. If we go by Fiscal calendar, 2013 is still down, but not too bad. There's still Q3 and Q4 to go. Can Nintendo shipped ~9.5-10m in Q3-Q4 to be within range of '11 and '12? Idk, JP sales have slowed down, but it looks like NA and EU are picking up.
