Q & A from Nintendo's General Shareholder Meeting

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noname2200 said:

JEMC said:

What I would like to know is how they plan to go from losing 40 billion Yen to win 40 billion year. Because that BS of launching software for the 43 million 3DS is a clear lie as the number of announced games for it is ridiculously low.

The sense I got was that they were going to cut back on expenses. So no more expansion, and less R&D costs?

They are expected to spend less on R&D in the coming year, last year's expenses were the highest it's ever been.  

Research and Development expenses from latest financials -FY 2013 (ended March 2014)- below:

Year ended March 31, 2013	Year ended March 31, 2014	Year ending March 31, 2015(Forecast)
53,483 million yen	71,736 million yen	57,000 million yen

R&D expenses were around 53,000m yen a year from 2011-2013.  So they want to return close to that 2011-13 level of spending.