Nintendo Q4 Investor's Meeting - Live

[Vinniegambini]

foxtail said:

Vinniegambini said:

kowenicki said:
So quarterly shipments:

Wii 0.16m
WiiU 0.31m
3DS 0.63m

Abysmal.

Results are very poor indeed; however, for once, like I mentioned previously, Nintendo is being extremely conservative with their hardware and software sales at the exception of 3DS HW for FY15.

Furthermore, a one-off event of 270 million for R&D investments for Q4 does not paint a pretty picture either.

It's going to be a very interesting investor's meeting tomorrow.

Am I reading it right, did they spend ~707 million on R&D expenses for this whole FY?

And ~527 million on R&D last year, and a projected ~562 million next year?

What accounts for the spike in R&D expenses this fiscal year?

Yup you are correct; usually expenses revolving software & hardware developments, especially new hardware (QOL)