czecherychestnut said:
The results in this thread are for the quarter, in which consoles sell 2-3x more than the rest of the year combined, meaning it was expected Nintendo would make a quarterly profit, but due to the previous quarterly losses (and the upcoming on) it will be a yearly loss. |
But it appears that the results are compounded (April-December 2013) so it takes the loss of previous quarters into account. Furthermore, based on previous years results Q4 does not have a massive impact on their profits unless they are doing heavy R&D or paying large end of year taxes; so this does make me wonder about their end-of-year projection made on January 17.