Nintendo results. Shipments: WiiU 340k, 3DS 1.65m, Wii 80k. $350m profit for full year.

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jlmurph2 said:

Goodnightmoon said:

Yes, because this iluminating financial results are giving us a new whole perspective. Nintendo was waiting for 3.6 m shipped for Wiiu and at the end is 3.4m, that changes it everything right? And 3DS is 8.8 m intead of 9m, wow! This must be for some reason that we haven´t discuss 100 times by now... right? Or maybe just the perfect time to shit a little bit more about exactly the same.

Well...yeah...because apparently that 3.6 was the lowball. Being 200k lower than your lowball when you have your biggest games out is terrible.

to be fair, nobody knew if Nintendo was actually lowballing. That's just what many many users thought. It turned out that they weren't and the projection was rather reasonable. I don't think it's bad that they missed their target by a few 100k (no matter how high it was). It's bad because the numbers themselves are really low. If they projected 3.3m and sold as much as they did (thus beating the projection) there still wouldn't be a reason to be more satisfied with the numbers.