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Tarumon on 16 January 2013
DaRev said:
I can't help but thinking 'so what?' or 'why is this important?'. Don't companies do stuff like this all the time? Isn't this just a part of business? I would hate to see people's reactions if Nintendo was to close or stop using a factory then start using another somewhere else because it was cheaper to do so.

I would say it more looks like long term planning by Nintendo, and I say good for them. Now they should also consolidate more of their software developers to bring fresh or different ideas.


It's a big deal if Nintendo initiated this bit of news coverage to set up for some kind of initiative announcement.  There is still the as of yet inexplicable 2nd Gamepad controller availability for example.  When both handheld and home console aren't just brought together physically but restructured under same division, there is potential for important changes down the road.  At a time when analysts and fans alike are questioning where Nintendo plans to take Wii U, I think a steady diet of news flow would help quite a bit.



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sethnintendo on 16 January 2013
umegames said:

I LOVED TINGLE TUNER!! and i liked using my gameboy advance with the gameboy player, and of course sonic adventure with sonic advance (good times there)

Don't forget about Animal Crossing being allowed to ride on Cap'n boat to the island.  The only way to get to the island was to have a GBA with link cable.



Vinniegambini on 16 January 2013

On another note, Japanese investors seem pleased with this news. Nintendo is up by 1.5% while Nikkei is down 2.4% - Not bad



Tarumon on 16 January 2013
Vinniegambini said:
On another note, Japanese investors seem pleased with this news. Nintendo is up by 1.5% while Nikkei is down 2.4% - Not bad


Yay!  X 1

My other JP Stocks No!!! X 7

Mostly just profit taking in reaction to Yen.  



Vinniegambini on 16 January 2013
Tarumon said:
Vinniegambini said:
On another note, Japanese investors seem pleased with this news. Nintendo is up by 1.5% while Nikkei is down 2.4% - Not bad


Yay!  X 1

My other JP Stocks No!!! X 7

Mostly just profit taking in reaction to Yen.  

Yeah crazy. The yen had a crazy run. I think it will stabilize at 85 US and 115 EUR. At 90 US and 120 EUR, it was unsustainable and would of brought more harm than good to Japan's economy.

I'm really excited for the earnings release. Hope they are good results. The shares should rally in anticipation of the result a bit.

What do you think of Sony, think they will be profitable? The last time they have made a fiscal profit was in 2006 no?



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runqvist on 16 January 2013

Nintendo is smart to cut costs, as they haven't been doing great for a while now.



Otakumegane on 16 January 2013
runqvist said:
Nintendo is smart to cut costs, as they haven't been doing great for a while now.


Rather than cutting costs we might be getting only 1 Nintendo device per gen now, a mix of handheld/console. Not sure if this is a good thing or bad.



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Tarumon on 16 January 2013
Vinniegambini said:
Tarumon said:
Vinniegambini said:
On another note, Japanese investors seem pleased with this news. Nintendo is up by 1.5% while Nikkei is down 2.4% - Not bad


Yay!  X 1

My other JP Stocks No!!! X 7

Mostly just profit taking in reaction to Yen.  

Yeah crazy. The yen had a crazy run. I think it will stabilize at 85 US and 115 EUR. At 90 US and 120 EUR, it was unsustainable and would of brought more harm than good to Japan's economy.

I'm really excited for the earnings release. Hope they are good results. The shares should rally in anticipation of the result a bit.

What do you think of Sony, think they will be profitable? The last time they have made a fiscal profit was in 2006 no?

I can't bear to look at Sony.  I dumped Panasonic a couple of years back too.  I just need to walk by the TV section of Best Buy, Costco, etc and just feel sorry for them.  Once TV went LCD and LED, the PC industry inflicted its curse.  Moore's Law killed Dram makers, killed HDD makers, and just about killed any hardware manufacturer and TV guys are now full on board with that BS.  

You don't see that in most industries you know.  It's a recipe for disaster when the companies slash the prices so deeply so fast.  Initially the OEMs via IPOs absorbed a lot of that nonsense until pretty much everything consolidated.  And Sony has had to compete on specs, but against the biggest currency manipulator Korea, Inc?  

Now TV guys are banking on 4K TV.  Same shit will happen again.  Most ironic for Sony is their profitable divisions on paper were the acquisitions that caused them to go deep into debt.  And luck would have it that MSFT saw the Playstation success and turned what would have been a high margin profit center into a loss leader. 

I sorely miss the Playstation era Sony.  But they've managed to diversify thenselves out of relevance.  Instead of R&D, catch on the iPod, smartphone, tablet markets, they mingled with Hollywood, Entertainment and the wall street crowd.  They betrayed their roots in electronic devices.  Now the cancer that is debt is just a cripling factor that most likely will force some divestiture.

Sick I tell ya.  



KHlover on 16 January 2013
skyehoppers said:

Yes, but it's been one month and one week since the Japan launch. That's a ridiculously small sample size. Way to small to take anything meaningful from, especially when half of that time was the middle of the holiday season. Of course sales are going to drop dramatically after Christmas. Not one sane person didn't expect them too. In your original post, you questioned whether this may be a knee-jerk reaction to WiiU sales, implying that they've been disastrous. You just admitted that they haven't. The amount of pretty unbased disregard of the WiiU's sales borders on sensationalism.

 

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Veknoid_Outcast on 16 January 2013

"The new division is expected to increase Nintendo’s chances of producing “revolutionary” new hardware; think of 3DS units hooking up the Wii U as a matter of course, or Wii U tablets which work as portable consoles in their own rights, and you’re probably on track for what it has in mind for the future."

This is interesting stuff. Maybe Nintendo's next project is a portable video game system that "docks" with a television? Maybe Wii U is the prototype?