Nintendo not replacing WiiU for at least a few more years! ~Iwata

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trestres said:

Pavolink said:

RolStoppable said:

No, trestres is wrong. Nintendo's fiscal year that just ended was 2014, so now it's already FY2015 for them. Meanwhile, Sony counts their fiscal years differently, so the same timeframe in calendar terms is one fiscal year behind (Sony is in fiscal year 2014 right now).

Is that right? Thanks.

Then FY2016 is too soon for a homeconsole as it's next year and FY 2017 seems more reasonable.

Rolstoppable is wrong, I've been checking everywhere and the FY number is the same as the year when it started in Japan.
Nintendo called this period Fiscal Year ENDED March 2014. Which is actually FY 2013.

But anyway, this is simply nomenclature.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year

Nintendo refers to a lot of things as FY Ending ___, whether in future or in retrospect.
Hence, on their consolidated sales documents available on their IR site they list FY3/2013 as the year that included most of 2012. The current FY in progress is FY3/2015.
It is just nomenclature but it's darned important to understand what the company means lest we be off by more than a year.

Edit: Visiting their IR site just now is the first I've seen them explicity refer to a year not by the month it ends. So maybe they are bringing in more of the usual nomenclature.