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Miyamotoo on 05 February 2016
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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! 

Actually they sold around 20m for 9 months, let say they have only $6 profit from every amiibo, that around $120m profit for 9 months, that's not bad at all from just a toy.

 

 

OneKartVita said:
tbone51 said:

Nah,  they both definitely helped out alot, Probably did about 15-25 percent of all nintendo profits (splatoon+smm) 

 

There are many other factors to consider that made them money. Like... 

DLC: mk8+ssb definitely made them a ton of profits alone

Amiibo: sold 20mil+ this year

Games that weren't expensive to make because of reused material! Triforce/ac/fe/ml/etc

Well splatoon sold 4m. 

4m x 60$ (it's 65 on amazon)  is 250$. Do you think the game cost over $50m to make.  It looks super cheap compared to modern day AAA. So why wouldn't roughly 200m of their profit be from splatoon? 

Actually Splatoon in Europe and Japan is around $40 and in US is $60, so lets count only $40 for game, 4m x $40 is $160m. For instance Witcher 3 development with whole marketing cost around $80m, Splatoon had strong marketing, but even with strong marketing I dont think it costed more than $50m, add to that around $10m shiping and sales costs, that means Nintendo made at least $100m (but relaisticly around 120m becuse game cost $60 in US), profit from Splatoon alone till 31. December.