2.43M+500k equals 2.93M without any spikes from game releases, and if we add 1M (1M is what the holiday was last year) for the holidays, an 500k for the game releaases that are not part of the holiday, we get 4.43M units.

I'd say 60k is probably unlikely to sustain. They will probably start to drift below 60k as the MK8 free game promotion ends. That said 3.6 mill for the fiscal year should be quite achievable, it was a very conservative forecast to begin with. I think they'll hit 4 million. Which still isn't a great number, but it's better than last year obviously. 

I was bored and used Nintendos financial reports to make this:

I think that's very telling and shows that Nintendo always had an operating loss for the whole year when they had an operating loss in the first quarter, let's see if it changes this year.

Awesome graph! FY11 is certainly among the more interesting years with big operating loss in Q1, but things came out even by years end whereas other years had smaller Q1 losses, but an overall bigger loss.

Getting both the handheld and home console running successfully seems to be key.

Around 100K weekly for the next year.

By never a profitable quarter you mean every year Q1 was profitable from 2003 (when they started releasing earnings quarterly) until 2011 when the 3DS kicked off Nintendo's recent lack of profitability.

Also losses suffered last quarter were recorded last quarter, not sure what you even mean by that.

EDIT: Should have kept reading through the thread because DerNebel covered the first point, with a nice graph as well.

Yes but with other games comming out, they may be able to saty at about 60;. Even if they go to about 50 though, 3.6M is likely

What games?

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Hyrule Warriors, Bayonetta 2, Whatever games come out Q1 2015