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Stefan.De.Machtige on 17 January 2014

Iwata won't be fired. He must have set up a lot of his own people when nearly half off the Nintendo board retired.
Who would replace him anyway?

He will be under a lot pressure though. More then usual.

Beside i doubt Nintendo will suffer a loss anyway. They might be looking to be seen beating their projections at this time. So that even a small profit or somewhat better sales look pretty good.



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Soundwave on 17 January 2014
Cobretti2 said:
Nintendo would have been better off if they let NOA do its thing like they did in the past. NOJ atm controls Reggie's balls.

They really do need some western talent to sell their systems.


Yes that's one of Iwata's gravest mistakes IMO, was neutering NOA after Arakawa/Lincoln left. Because of them Nintendo was able to get games like DKC (which basically won the 16-bit war for them) and GoldenEye (which kept the N64 alive in that period between Mario 64 and Zelda: Oot), and make deals like the Star Wars games which did very well for Nintendo. 



Locknuts on 17 January 2014
DD_Bwest said:
Devil_Survivor said:
DD_Bwest said:
750million... thats alot of money.

how much did they have in the bank? lol


It was somewhere between 10 to 12 billion dollars last time I heard lol.


man they are going to need it..  

here is an honest question to Wii-U owners.

If Nintendo pulled the plug on the wii-u to bring in something new and fresh(and powerful).  How would you take it?  would you support it and buy the new console? or would you be pissed about it?

I'd probably never buy another one in the first two years of its existence.



Soundwave on 17 January 2014
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Iwata won't be fired. He must have set up a lot of his own people when nearly half off the Nintendo board retired.
Who would replace him anyway?

He will be under a lot pressure though. More then usual.

Beside i doubt Nintendo will suffer a loss anyway. They might be looking to be seen beating their projections at this time. So that even a small profit or somewhat better sales look pretty good.


I'm kinda curious as to what logic translates "we're going to make a 25 billion yen loss" to "well they might make a small profit", lol. 



Vinniegambini on 17 January 2014

I'm still shocked as to how such massive losses can be announced with the yen currently in their favor. Baffled.



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DanneSandin on 17 January 2014

Well, 9m Wii U's were never feasible... But How could the beastly 3DS not do more than 13.5m?! THAT'S the big question?! It has Pokémon, Monster Hunter AND Zelda this year alone! Those games alone should pull 15m... wtf?

Something definitely needs to change at Nintendo.



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Soundwave on 17 January 2014
DanneSandin said:
Well, 9m Wii U's were never feasible... But How could the beastly 3DS not do more than 13.5m?! THAT'S the big question?! It has Pokémon, Monster Hunter AND Zelda this year alone! Those games alone should pull 15m... wtf?

Something definitely needs to change at Nintendo.


It's time to admit smartphones/tablets have completely changed the market. There's no denying it anymore. Even when kids are getting a 3DS, I believe they're buying maybe 1 or 2 games tops at $40. The $1 pricing on iOS/Android games I think has crippled the portable software market. 



JWeinCom on 17 January 2014
Stefan.De.Machtige said:
Iwata won't be fired. He must have set up a lot of his own people when nearly half off the Nintendo board retired.
Who would replace him anyway?

He will be under a lot pressure though. More then usual.

Beside i doubt Nintendo will suffer a loss anyway. They might be looking to be seen beating their projections at this time. So that even a small profit or somewhat better sales look pretty good.


I dunno.  It's kind of hard to figure how nobody gets fired based off this, and usually in these sorts of situations, the buck stops at the top. 



finalfantasystud on 17 January 2014

Thats not good, but i think this will be a good year for nintendo. Mario kart 8 Monlith's X, etc releases. Add that with the 2ds and pokemon soaring strong, with some more 1st party 3ds releases this year nintendo is gonna be fine don't be so quick to doom a system before any of its best games are out. If this year is a similar repeat of last year then you can doom it, but this will be the deciding year. BTW i will be getting a Wii U this year, X looks fucking incredible!!!



Azerth on 17 January 2014