Nintendo lowers forecast from 55 billion yen profit to 25 billion yen loss

[DanneSandin]

Soundwave said:

DanneSandin said:

Yup. I've never denied that; the market has shrunk - but I still think there's a place for dedicated handheld consoles. But they might not sell more than 50m LDT.

I'm curious how Nintendo will tackle the mobile market... Making a phone and tablet of their own? Is it is right now, you can't play Nintendo games on smart devices, because those devices sucks too much - but maybe Nintendo will come up with something that will change that?

There's nothing they can do to combat this problem head on. 

What I think may happen though is they will make their own gaming tablet and try to have that coexist with a cheaper 3DS. 

If they can squeeze 10 million units from both product lines annually, that's 20 million portables sold a year ... which suddenly doesn't seem so bad. 

I think that if/when Nintendo releases a gaming tablet it'll work with the WII U, and they'll release a Wii U sku without the gamepad, and you'll be able to use your Nintendo Tablet instead. But this would mean that they'd need to develop games for 3 different kind of platforms, and they can barelt keep up with two consoles...