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Forums - Nintendo - Nintendo Results Q2 FY14: WiiU 0.61m, 3DS 1.27m

 

WiiU shipments?

<300k 41 7.84%
 
300k to 400k 21 4.02%
 
400k to 500k 45 8.60%
 
500k to 750k 112 21.41%
 
750k to 1.0m 50 9.56%
 
1.0m to 1.25m 37 7.07%
 
1.25m to 1.50m 23 4.40%
 
>1.5m 50 9.56%
 
see results 142 27.15%
 
Total:521
jlmurph2 on 29 October 2014
Sharu said:
jlmurph2 said:
Sharu said:
A simple question to everybody.
Which company is more succesful, the one which have small sales but gets profit, or a company with a huge sales and losses?


The company with good sales and huge profit. That's the one that'll last.

So not Nintendo anymore? )

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benji232 on 29 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Soundwave said:
Conegamer said:
That is one slim slim profit.
But a profit is a profit! Wonder how many u's they'll ship for Smash and Christmas.


$224 million isn't that slim actually. For three months its pretty good. Though it's inflated by the yen and probably the fact that they were selling many Wii U units are full inventory profit (as they had paid off those systems last quarter). 

If Nintendo could make a steady $224 million every three months in net profit, I'd say they'd take it and run at this point (so would Sony for that matter). 

Where are you getting that $224 million figure from? OP only says 215 million yen.

From Nintendo's very own report. The OP isn't mentionning the Net profit. Also, they made a 90+ million dollars operating profit for the last quarter. However, that still brings it to a 215 million yen operating loss (roughly 2 million dollars which is nothing).



Predictions for LT console sales:

PS4: 120M

XB1: 70M

WiiU: 14M

3DS: 60M

Vita: 13M

Sharu on 29 October 2014
jlmurph2 said:
Sharu said:
jlmurph2 said:
Sharu said:
A simple question to everybody.
Which company is more succesful, the one which have small sales but gets profit, or a company with a huge sales and losses?


The company with good sales and huge profit. That's the one that'll last.

So not Nintendo anymore? )

fixed

So no company will last in gaming business since nobody now has both good sales and huge profit... Yeah, gaming is doomed...



Sharu on 29 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Sharu said:
A simple question to everybody.
Which company is more succesful, the one which have small sales but gets profit, or a company with a huge sales and losses?

Definitely the bigger sales company. You wouldn't say some local corner shop is more succesful than some huge international company just because they made a small profit while the big company lost some money would you? They had to be succesful to get to that size in the first place so...

I can say yes. Small shop with one owner/salesman, family business can be more succesful than the huge megacorporation. 



benji232 on 29 October 2014
kowenicki said:
Soundwave said:
kowenicki said:
Ka-pi96 said:
Not great, but not too bad either. They at least made some money, and they've got what should be their most profitable quarter now, so yeah could end up as a profit for Nintendo this year.

I disagree.  All of sudden its great if they manage to scrap a meagre net profit?  (operating income is still bad)

The hardware sales are relatively terrible, profits (if any) are tiny and the sales of the 3ds are falling fast.  Its fairly bleak imo.


$223 million for a July-September quarter isn't actually all that bad. It's pretty damn good actually even though a big chunk of it is because of a favorable yen. 

that woudlnt be that bad no... but thats not what it was.  It was 215m yen for the 3 month period, or $2m.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29813672

They made an operating profit. Their very own financial highlights is for the first half of their FY14. They brought down the operating los from 9+ billion yen to 215 million yen. So much misleading information going on in this thread..

EDIT: I apologise if this was already cleared up earlier.



Predictions for LT console sales:

PS4: 120M

XB1: 70M

WiiU: 14M

3DS: 60M

Vita: 13M

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Sharu on 29 October 2014

At least we can say that WiiU software sales are HUGELY undertracked here... )))



Sharu on 29 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Sharu said:
jlmurph2 said:

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So no company will last in gaming business since nobody now has both good sales and huge profit... Yeah, gaming is doomed...

That's not true. Sony have. As long as we are only talking about the gaming business then they have got both good sales and profit.

We talking about HUGE profit here? )



Sharu on 29 October 2014
Ka-pi96 said:
Sharu said:

At least we can say that WiiU software sales are HUGELY undertracked here... )))

Hmm, about a 10million difference? Yeah, I doubt digital makes up that much, so undertracked.

You forgot VC, eShop and DLC, methink... )



Deeds on 29 October 2014

All I know is that the lil guy at the corner store is still in business after about 23 years, but Enron (a 100 billion plus company) isnt. At the end of the day.

Profit = good

Loss = bad

Great sales = good

Terrible sales = bad

Growth in sales = good

Lack of growth in sales = bad

What investors really look at is revenue and profit growth.



jlmurph2 on 29 October 2014
Sharu said:
jlmurph2 said:

fixed

So no company will last in gaming business since nobody now has both good sales and huge profit... Yeah, gaming is doomed...


So now you've broken it down to just the gaming business? Just because Nintendo is only gaming doesn't mean we have to cut the profits of the other companies. Your post said "which company is more successful".