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

[tbone51]

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? 

The game budget  is definitely alot less than your average game, but the mistake you made here is the profits. It's nowhere near that. Even if first party, I don't think they  make even 50% on each copy sold.

Another factor is 2 things.  1.europe has about 1mil in sales, most likely more. It'll profit alot less than normal (being about 40 msrp). (so about  a third drop in profits?) 

2. I would say about 400k-500k WW were bundle sales (thanks to euro+noa) which means the game itself won't be sold as much as a profit

 

The game I think overall budget and marketing was around 12mil dollars.