Nintendo's profits drop 30% year-on-year

[Lawlight]

Pavolink said:

Lawlight said:

Xenoblade Chronicles X? Wasn't there an Animal Crossing game too? Triforce Heroes? I'm sure there must have been a Mario game as well. Oh Mario Maker and Mario Tennis? And the Mario spin-off Yoshi's game.

1. A niche RPG, like Bloodborne, outsold by a new garage IP, like Bloodborne.

2. Rip-off that needed crapmiibos.

3. Unasked spin-off.

4. Mario Maker was released in September and sold more than 3M copies.

5. Mario Tennis lacks as much content as sales.

6. Yoshi is the only one, after 5 failed mentions.

I can understand that XCX is niche however that's a whole lot of excuses for the other games. And with Nintendo marketing a lot of its games to kids during the holiday period, release dates don't matter as much as for core games. In any case, Nintendo released a lot of games last year so it's normal for them to make a profit.