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Dunban67 on 05 July 2014
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JEMC said:
Soundwave said:
JEMC said:
foxtail said:

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.

I guess that will put an end to the hopes (to call it something) that some had of Nintendo launching a new console in 2016.

Hard to gauge anything from that really, since YE March 2013 should be the highest since that's where the Wii U launched, yet it's lower than the following two years. 

I think Wii U is probably Nintendo's last "traditional" home console in a lot of ways any how. They will simply just make one handheld platform with a way to play that on the TV as a side functionality going forward I think and then branch off into the Quality of Life, licensing (movies, merchandising, etc.),  and the toy biz (amiibo) in the future as their alternate business pillars. 

I know you're very convinced of what Nintendo will do with its next home console, but until (further) proofs are revealed that support your theory, it's only that, a theory.

Also, you are contradicting yourself with my post. Given that you still want to believe that they will launch the next console in 2013, you point that YE2013 saw less R&D than YE2012 despite launching WiiU in 2012, but a console launched in 2016 will be included in YE2017, not YE2016. Unless they launch it in the fist 3 months of the year, something very unlikely.

I think the reasons for expending less is simple: they have been spending in Amiibo and their QoL branch. One will launch this year and the other... God knows how much is hardware and how much is software.

If they cut back significantly on the expense side, how will they crank out enough quality software to support the Wii u over the next several years ( much less advertise for it)?