Nintendo won't hit their forecasts. How did they get them so wrong?

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Max King of the Wild said:

Slarvax said:

Thaaaaat... would be hilarious! 

Now let's think about this for a second. Wii U sold about 3+ million in 45 days after launch (if I'm correct) and about 3.5 million at the end of fiscal year. So it kind of makes sense that they expected about 9 million. A lot of "system sellers" (as shown in the present, that didn't work) were releasing, so if they sold about a third of their goal in less than two months, it would've made sense to do that three times in 12 months.

Of course, they didn't expect to get such a long drought and that their games would not boost the numbers, or that their hardware wasn't so anti-buyme, so I would say they were delusional.

Nintendo sold 3.06 at the end Dec then .39 at the end of march. terrible drop off which pointed to lower than 9mil sales. ESPECIALLY, since Nintendo missed their forcast by 2.05 already

Yeah, that actually made me feel bad. I wouldn't invest in a company that misses their (already lowered) sales forecast. How is Nintendo bigger than Sony again?