Great. Fingers Crossed that they do well.

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They'll make a profit, for sure.

fingers crossed.

if they make a profit as a company, it will be the only one on the videogame industry to do it 1 year after posting losses! everything Wii and DS related are profits, while the 3DS should be making the same but for less, the sum of thos should keep the Wii U to at least avoid losses. add the yen exchange rate??? i want to know how it ends!!!!

Profit I'm sure

They should make a sizable profit for that quarter if they were making money even last year with a worse yen situation and a money losing 3DS.

NSMB2 and Animal Crossing have sold well for them. Wii U is sorta negligable, but the Wii and DS also continue to sell decent during the holiday season, that's just printing money for Nintendo.

That said, I think they are also going to reveal that shipment forecasts for both the 3DS and especially the Wii U are going to be slashed and perhaps their fiscal year end target may not be met.

Your senseless Nintenod-aversion blinds you in making an objective look at the state.

Heavily discounted - yes (as not all consumer-devices are heavily discounted around the holidays). But the discounts are made by retailers, so they don't affect Nintendo. Only official price-cuts have effect, and I don't think Nintendo has any incentive to sell old-gen-devices (DS and Wii) at a loss and 3DS is profitable since fall.

And WiiU has been a debacle? Not in the timeframe we look at. It sold around 80% Wii-launch in Nov-Dec. Hardly a debacle. After christmas it started dropping. Last week of december was only decent and starting January it dropped below what PS3 and X360 sold in the comparable timeframe (look here: http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=152379&page=1# ). But we talk about the quarter Oct-Dec, so this bad numbers are not included in that (they will in next quarter). That said - the good initial sales of the WiiU could be a problem for the profit, because it was sold at a loss.

Just for those of you who actually follows Nintendo as a company (I have lost any interest in reading most comments on this site after seeing so little knowledge but so strong of opinion just maybe one too many times). The way Nintendo keeps its books, if they have a profit, they book the profit when sold. But if they have a loss, they book the loss when the product is made.

So the actual shipment, retail sales of Wii Us will likely have no impact 9/12-12/12 due to the fact that Nintendo was producing units at full capacity. However many they could manafacture, they did, and the loss was anticipated as they were made, even back in 6/12-8/12 quarter. Nintendo forecast a motherload of Wii Us, so they estimated more losses on the hardware for the full year than they are on pace to achieve. Software on the other hand, most likely did have some profit built in, but because they expense any R&D, the software variable cost component is more manageable so maybe they could have slowed down as it became evident that they weren't selling as many.

Fiscal 3 quarter is almost guaranteed to be profitable. Fiscal 4th almost guaranteed to be ugly, but since Yen has potential to hit 100, Abenomics might just turn that quarter into profits from exchange rates alone. I personally expect bette than forecast buttomlines with a dampened top line outlook, with some serius drum beating for 2013 as the year company fires on all cylinders.

Contrary to popular believe, the Wii U launch was actually pretty good. It was in january where the U fell off a cliff. If Nintendo can't post profits in q3 they are in huge trouble.

Loss, cause they sold the WiiU at a loss. Also, I think they said they need to sell 1 game with every WiiU for it to be profitable, so with the few games they have, they may make a loss.