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

[Lawlight]

tbone51 said:

Lawlight said:
But I guess most of the profits came from those 9.9M Amiibo sales. Make them for cheap in China and sell them for $20.

You think most profits came from amiibo? Cmon now. First of all they are $13 msrp. Second they aren't that cheap. 

 

Edit: let's say nintendo makes $8 for each amiibo (hint it's way less), that would come out to a profit of $80mil of the entire year, so easily no! 

I think the markup is more than $8 on those figurines. And that would be in line with their philosophy - make stuff for cheap and sell them at a high price by providing a heavy marketing push. I wonder whether they'll stick to the same stuff again with the NX or if their devs will get more freedom.