| ARamdomGamer said: They said they will give the NX a Nintendo like solution, but I don't remember them saying anything about 2016. |
Question: In your presentation, you made it clear that in this fiscal year Nintendo would prioritize restoration of the balance of revenue and expenses. My question deals with the company’s mid-term prospects. I would like Mr. Iwata to tell us his current thoughts on what he would like the following two terms (the fiscal year ending March 2016 and the fiscal year ending March 2017) to mean for the company. Given that Nintendo already made a significant devaluation of inventory in the previous fiscal year, I suppose you are envisioning that the financial performance of the company is set to recover by some extent this fiscal year, but what are the key factors that will drive the business from the next fiscal year? Or, do you think that investment will expand yet again from the new businesses in and after the next fiscal year? Please tell us how you would expect the company’s financial performance to change from the next fiscal year.
Iwata: With regard to this fiscal year, I feel that it is essential for us to restore the balance of revenue and expenses that has been lost temporarily in order to gain trust in the financial markets. On the other hand, while it is difficult to talk about the next two fiscal years using concrete figures, I feel that in the next fiscal year [read as 2015] we will be able to be more specific about the kinds of mid-term projects that we discussed at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing in January, and in fact, we will even start to offer some of them to the public. In the following fiscal year [read as 2016], I expect some of these measures to start serving as a source of profits for the company. In this sense, instead of seeing a great and sudden recovery in our profitability in the next fiscal year [read as 2015], I am rather expecting to be able to report Nintendo-like profits from around the following fiscal year [read as 2016].
http://www.gamnesia.com/news/iwata-doesnt-expect-nintendo-like-profits-until-2016#.ValoSvmz2Y8
it's vauge. nintendo could have other things like the nintendo online service they seem to be preping for at the end of this year might have a subscription. mobile. amiibo. QoL. a combination of all such things. ..but given what we know NX seems as likely a canidate as anything.
