Please Understand

[nomad]

Mystro-Sama said:

kekrot said:

padib said:

Nintendo is a company that constantly makes me want to take the reigns and push like crazy. They are a company that do things like resting on their lorels and thinking that everything will be fine when they are in 1st place. That is not the Nintendo I want, but Nintendo is that company today.

Just like everybody else. Remember Sony at E3 2006, coming off of the success of the PS2.

But yes, I agree with you, Nintendo is WAY too passive nowadays. It's been over a year since the Wii U launched, but like Iwata said, a lot of the money they spent the last year, which in turn went to losses, went to R&D, meaning more games in the next year.

 

When did Iwata say that? o.O

I also wanted a source. Found it here: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/140117/index.html

"As for advertising expenses, and research and development expense forecasts, we made revisions to increase them by eight billion yen and 15 billion yen respectively from their forecasts made at the beginning of this fiscal year. We expect advertising expenses to increase due to the effect of the expenses incurred in foreign currencies to be converted into Japanese yen by using weaker yen rates. The estimated increase of research and development expenses is based on reflecting our ongoing enhancement of the development structure, and new research and development activities. These increases contributed to lowered estimated profit forecasts."

They could just be increasing the budget of existing projects and maybe funding an extra game or two.