The Switch could be make-or-break for Nintendo.

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Ka-pi96 said:

BlueFalcon said:

"The Switch is probably make-or-break for Nintendo."

Nonsense. Nintendo can sell 0 units of the Switch for 5 years and still have enough money to release a next generation console. They have almost 10 billion of cash. Another way of looking at this console is Nintendo can lose $3-4 billion dollars over the next 5 years (aka pull the original Xbox or Xbox 360) and still survive. We know for a fact that this console will not sell 0 units. So please stop with the doom and gloom rhetoric and sensationalist exaggerations that the Switch is a "make or break" console for Nintendo. That's something one would say if they don't know anything about finance.

I dunno, I think saying they can take a $3-4b loss over the next 5 years and still continue what they`re doing is what somebody who knows nothing about finance would say

For starters their cash reserves are only about $5b. They may have about $10b in assets, but unless you want them to start selling buildings and stuff...

But more importantly... they have to answer to shareholders. If they`re consistently making losses (especially losses adding up to billions) then their shareholders would be putting a huge amount of pressure on them to change something asap.

I'm pretty sure Nintendo has like 10billion liquid assets, meaning assets that can be moved extremely quickly.

The suggestion Nintendo will lose billions is just absurd. even the worst case scenario that would never happen, you would have to release a console generation and have like ZERO sales for that to be a possibility.

Not sure where some of you are getting your numbers from 

Also this thread is just silly. Nintendo just had a fairly shit generation and the max they lost in a particular year was like a few hundred million. Control yourselves.