No way; they got too much money!!

DanneSandin is right. Too much in cash reserves, too much good will, too many evergreen IPs. I don't believe Nintendo will ever go the way of Sega. When they do exit the business, I imagine it will be at a time when video games no longer resemble what we've become accustomed to over the past 40 years.

Expected worse, not too bad at all considering Wii is dying rapidly and they've to cover the current Wii U production costs.

The strong yen is really not helping their earnings, its killing it. A revision had to be made because of it. Hopefully the yen will weaken by year-end and can beat its forecasts. Its only forecasting a net profit of 70 million by March 2013 with the revisions, compared to an earlier forecast of 200 million, big difference.

word!!

In October yes (103 yen for Euro), but that will only be reflected in Q3. During July and August (Q2), the conversion rate was between 95-98 at the time. The strong yen affects its profits drastically, hopefully it will not revisit the below 100 throughout. Furthermore, I never said it was only because of the exchange rate, I said quote: ''the strong yen is really not helping.'' But yeah, the forecast was off.

Damn. :/

3DS sales forcast cut by 5.4 percent to 17.5 million units....

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-24/nintendo-cuts-forecast-on-lower-demand-for-3ds-stronger-yen.html

Mobile is killing dedicated handhelds

Even though the handheld market's days are numbered it's still impressive that Nintendo will be clear of 30 million 3DS' after this holiday.

They need the Wii U to be a hit badly, I don't think they'll have much trouble selling for the first few months, but that Feburary-August 2013 stretch will probably tell us a lot about how the broader market views the system and what kind of future it has.

Nintend000000mzz!