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

[Soundwave]

ninetailschris said:

Soundwave said:

mii-gamer said:
Well shit! I did not expect this.

I have to apologize to soundwave - Iwata needs to be removed from the top - maybe new management can ground them to reality

No apology needed. Honestly I'd rather have been wrong because I do genuinely like Nintendo, but they really did all this to themselves. 

They need to become less stubborn and narrow minded. 

Really had nothing do with them with wiiu besides lack of ads and naming. The third party made up there minds way before it was made. People saying "if it was so much powerful" don't realize that it never mattered before. The cost of current porting it much bigger now, so it was bound to happen. Most third party are happy with 2 systems and soon the same with apple.

Hardware power has always mattered. The SNES would've lost to the Genesis if it was just a overclocked NES. The N64 wouldn't have gone anywhere if it was just an overclocked SNES. 

People need to realize the Wii is one exception to the rule ... not the rule itself. That whole formula simply doesn't work unless you have a Wiimote type phenomenon to drive sales. 

And it's next to impossible to recreate that every 5 years like clockwork.