Stuff so far said
- Sold 2.49m Animal Crossing, 1.91m Luigi's Mansion, 1.63m Tomodachi Collection, 1.37m Mario and Luigi, 1.19m Donkey Kong
- Nintendo said took inventory write down to account for price reduction
- Nintendo saying 3DS share has increased in Japan EU and USA, it's a growing market, you down in USA and Europe as last yr launched XL
- Pokemon X/Y said EU share grew from 18% to 38% and believes similar uptick in USA
- In the USA Nintendo 3DS has already passed last year's total, expects over 5m sold this year in USA with strong holiday season
- Nintendo saying 2DS awareness is still too low, but designed to appeal to lower priced users and survey indicates buyers were new users
- Wii Sports Club will be download only and free to play for 24hrs, 200 yen per day or 1000 yen for entire game
- Wii Fit U is also free for 1 month for users who have balance board, in Japan survey showed 500k still use board today
- Wii Fit U meter also has barometer so can measure if going uphill or down
- Because of the Pokemon launch, the company hadn't been doing much Wii U marketing but that has changed and sales have already improved
- Nintendo had 11.4bn yen renevue in digital sales with 50% for full game downloads
- Nintendo new bundles in Japan (family pack) and USA (Mario and Luigi) expected to boost sales.
- The new Streetpass games have been purchased to value of 1.1bn yen with Japan 35% of the total, expects Pokemon to help boost it in the future
-CEO commitment to 100bn OP this year is "make best effort to achieve target" and not going to quit or not
-Nintendo plan to boost VC and library not fully utilised, can do more with digital platform, no plans to release own games on smart devices
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