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Soundwave on 16 November 2014
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tbone51 said:
Lucas-Rio said:
Nintendo won't post 1B$ at Q4. It will be a good quarter if they post a profit.

The Wii/DS times were the printing money machines. Nintendo had insane benefits at their peak, with a record 2.5billons benefits in one year.

Nothing can topple a Wii being sold at comfortable profit and games like MKWii, NSMB and Wii Fit being sold at 25-35 millions copies.

Didnt they make a profit last quarter? $200mil i think it was around. That was with Hyrule Warriors at the very end, SSB 3ds (note 3.2mil ship figure does count for last quarter), and With MK8 doing ok. 

I think (if that $200mil profit is accurate) they definetly can post a good amount. msybe $600mil? maybe more? I dunno :-/

They did make a profit last quarter (operating too) but it was mostly becauase of a favorable yen/currency flucuations, not really huge profits from their actual business. The other thing is I believe all Wii Us were sold at pure profit last quarter because Nintendo already had paid for their manufacture the quarter before (absorbing those losses). 

This is also why people got confused and still state "'Wii U is sold at a profit!", because they didn't understand what Iwata was saying in the previous investors report. 

That said Nintendo is pretty much gaurunteed to profit in Q3 (Oct-Dec). Nintendo always makes a profit in this quarter even in the last few years where they lost money for the full year overall.