Fortune: Once left for dead, Nintendo expects best holiday season in years - Pachter now says Wii U could turn around!?

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AnthonyW86 said:

zorg1000 said:

AnthonyW86 said:
LOL who thinks this stuff up. Thanks for the good laugh. Seriously though they will probably do a little better than last year but no resurgence to be seen in the near future for now.

The article seems to be talking more about profits than it does about hardware sales. Basically since Nintendo had a profitable quarter ($224 million), they are expected to do real well this quarter with Smash Bros+Amiibo+Pokémon+holiday boost for hardware/previously released software. In that respect I would have to agree with the article.

If they hade released MK8 and Smash as a multi platform game on ps3/ps4/x360/Xbox One they would have posted a much higher profit. So profit in this case isn't that much of an indicator it's just short term. Nobody in their right minds expected them to post another loss with the launch of those two games.

Fact is sales wise this holiday is going to be really dissapointing and this is probably going to be as good as it will get for both 3DS and Wii-U. It will be mostly downhill after this, and that's why i think you can't really speak of an resurgence.

Nintendo has posted losses in the last three years, they are now on track to post profits this year and for the rest of the generation, that's what the article means by resurgence.

I'm not sure what going third party really has to do with anything.