specialk on 27 April 2017
| Normchacho said: Man, some of you guys get riled up over everything... The profits are good, but we can't just ignore where they come from. They sold a baseball team, and they had huge profits in the summer from Pokemon go, which have largely tappered off. Neither of those sources will be around in a meaningful way for the next fiscal year. So anyone claiming that this is some big comeback needs to remember that these were one off events and that they dont reflect Nintendo's actual business of selling games and hardware. But please, feel free to call me a hater because you'd rather remain blissfully ignorant of the reality of the situation. |
This has been well discussed.
There is plenty to be optimistic over still though.
A vast majority of sales still came from their dedicated gaming devices.
Pokemon Go is mentioned just once in the earnings release, and it is about how it generated demand for Pokemon Sun and Moon and the 3DS platform in geneneral.
Pokemon Go and the NES Classic reacquainting people with the Nintendo brand is something that can generate repeatable success.
The Switch did well.
Nintendo is optimistic about Switch's future, forecasting 10m units for the upcoming fiscal year.
