Are they selling the 3DS at a loss? If so that would be an adequate explanation as to why they'd forecast a loss when their sales are that strong.

In the end, it honestly just comes down to games.

Nintendo's lack of strength overall signals to me Nintendo's incompetence with its newer games, rather than apple making them become obsolete. I'm not dissing games like 3D Land or Mario Kart 7, but they simply won't save the system. 3D Land will never be a hit on the level of Super Mario Brothers, and Mario Kart can't turn things around on its own like that, as I don't believe it has ever done so. Remakes like of old games isn't going to save them either (so why do they make them? Even OoT probably should have waited until the system was in a better place..it isn't the type of game to save a system either. Use your resources on something that brings in the proper cashflow first that you need to survive).

Overall, I think the blunt way of saying it is that they really just need to start making better games..then they will continue to be relevant inspite of whatever apple does. I'd like to see Nintendo release a Super Mario Brothers for the 3DS and Wii U so that they can showcase this. Honestly, these types of games are a priority. Nintendo's lack of making them is beyond insane.

Dude, how can retailers report shortages if they had  a 7 day supply. They could have had new shipments on 1st Jan for all we know.

Wii looks overtracked, DS as well.

SW i dont know how it works so i wont speak about that.

heh, i thought i worded that sentence poorly. I meant that the Japanese efforts have been to little avail, not the efforts of Japanese companies to get Japan to try to do something

The dollar i think could see a turnaround in a couple of years (barring any major catastrophes), since the economic fundamentals in America seem to be lining up, but the Euro is going to be a mess for some time to come, unless Europe acts quickly (odd for me to say that, of course, as the leftist in me is quite against austerity)

Or the fairy dust and scotch tape holding the Japanese system together could come apart and drag the Yen down, but that would just be horrible for everyone

Oh boy.....During that quarter their were reports of mass sellouts in certain regions http://www.computerandvideogames.com/328526/3ds-selling-out-at-uk-retailers/

So there were signs of struggles to meet demand in certain regions during the quarter, and of courses there would be cases of sells-outs at a few individual retailers at varying times around the world that wont make headlines. Like mines for instance but they got resupplied lil afterwards.

And why do you keep repeating the bolded. It does not matter where the goods are in the chain as long as the retailers has access to it. Also, if they had a '7 days' supply on the 31st Dec and a new shipment was made 1st of Jan It would make this all irrelevant. This is why I asked the first question. and if thats the case it can even be undertracked.

There is no evidence here that the 3ds is overtracked dude, relax.

The 3DS forecast has needed revising down since its abysmal Q1 showing. I don't think it's any reflection on current sales levels.

A shrewd observation. Do you think it was an effort to make the missed Q1 targets seem less painful by lowering the forecast in increments over the rest of the fiscal year (rather than dragging the numbers all the way down all at once), or that they honestly thought they could make it back up later?

Not good for Nintendo... 3DS helped a lot but I thing Wii U is more than necessary now.

660k Wii's vs 2.07M 360's and Wii is overtracked? Unless I'm missing something isn't a console with under 1M units on shelves usually undertracked?