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Teeqoz on 08 December 2015
Pavolink said:
Nogamez said:
How have we got fiscal year 2015? Doesn't that end 31st of march?


FY2015 ended in march 2015. Currently we are ongoing FY2016 ending in march 2016.


https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/index.html

Nintendo investor relations says otherwise.



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Luke888 on 08 December 2015

FY 2015 SHOULD end March 31st 2016 but I'm not 100% shure.
If that is the case then Pokkén and Zelda will save FY 2016 from beeing the first year to sell less than 10M hardware...



Pavolink on 08 December 2015
Teeqoz said:
Pavolink said:


FY2015 ended in march 2015. Currently we are ongoing FY2016 ending in march 2016.


https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/index.html

Nintendo investor relations says otherwise.

Woops you are right. Yet, Nintendo has not shipper 12M devices this year.



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S.Peelman on 08 December 2015

FY09-57.36m...

O.O



zorg1000 on 08 December 2015
Soundwave said:

The problem are smart devices seeping into broader demographics like children by becoming super cheap the last couple of years.

The iPad wasn't as big of a problem when it was the only real tablet available because it cost $500+. Nowadays I see little kids, families of them and each kid has their own tablet and they're sitting on a flight playing games for 4-5 hours of a flight. These are like $150 tablets. 

This is why I've said in the other thread, they need to accept that being no.3 in the console race is unacceptable. They cannot have a low selling console while having such erosion in the portable market. At some point you have to say enough is enough and fight for marketshare. Specifically I say they need to target Microsoft's share of the console market (battling against Sony may too difficult because Sony has their shit together quite frankly on the console side). 

The whole "we can have a crappy selling console because we're selling 15-20 million portables a year" strategy doesn't work anymore because they're not selling portables at that rate anymore. 


One thing I'm interesting in is what Iwata said a year or two ago about them no longer being able to sell $200-300 hardware with $30-60 software anymore and get strong results, I'm really curious on how they plan on adapting their pricing scheme. I know they have a new program that rewards u for buying/playing games but will this be able to significantly reduce the overall amount people need to spend on software? And what about hardware, does that mean they are aiming for the $100-150 price range?

Can Nintendo release a $150 Vita++ that has Wii U level visuals at a lower resolution plus the patented "supplementary device" for $150 that boosts it to Wii U++ levels? That in addition to the rewards potentially bringing software prices down by a solid margin may bring Nintendo back to 20+ million yearly shipments.



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Diablos on 08 December 2015

That's a serious fall from grace.

They really are in a tough spot, might not have a way out of it.



Pavolink on 08 December 2015
zorg1000 said:
Soundwave said:

The problem are smart devices seeping into broader demographics like children by becoming super cheap the last couple of years.

The iPad wasn't as big of a problem when it was the only real tablet available because it cost $500+. Nowadays I see little kids, families of them and each kid has their own tablet and they're sitting on a flight playing games for 4-5 hours of a flight. These are like $150 tablets. 

This is why I've said in the other thread, they need to accept that being no.3 in the console race is unacceptable. They cannot have a low selling console while having such erosion in the portable market. At some point you have to say enough is enough and fight for marketshare. Specifically I say they need to target Microsoft's share of the console market (battling against Sony may too difficult because Sony has their shit together quite frankly on the console side). 

The whole "we can have a crappy selling console because we're selling 15-20 million portables a year" strategy doesn't work anymore because they're not selling portables at that rate anymore. 


One thing I'm interesting in is what Iwata said a year or two ago about them no longer being able to sell $200-300 hardware with $30-60 software anymore and get strong results, I'm really curious on how they plan on adapting their pricing scheme. I know they have a new program that rewards u for buying/playing games but will this be able to significantly reduce the overall amount people need to spend on software? And what about hardware, does that mean they are aiming for the $100-150 price range?

Can Nintendo release a $150 Vita++ that has Wii U level visuals at a lower resolution plus the patented "supplementary device" for $150 that boosts it to Wii U++ levels? That in addition to the rewards potentially bringing software prices down by a solid margin may bring Nintendo back to 20+ million yearly shipments.

Didn't know that! And it's very interesting.



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DKCTF didn't move consoles

Prediction: No Zelda HD for Wii U, quietly moved to the succesor

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Teeqoz on 08 December 2015
Pavolink said:
Teeqoz said:

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/earnings/index.html

Nintendo investor relations says otherwise.

Woops you are right. Yet, Nintendo has not shipper 12M devices this year.

 
To be honest, I think if they're gonna have a year below 10M in the foreseeable future, it's gonna be FY2015. They've forecast FY2015 to be 11.1 M, but I think their 3DS forecast (and possibly their Wii U forecast) is a tad optimistic, so I think they'll miss their forecasts ever so slightly. I doubt they'll end up below 10M, but I think it's gonna be close. Something like 10.5-10.7M



nanarchy on 08 December 2015
Soundwave said:

The problem are smart devices seeping into broader demographics like children by becoming super cheap the last couple of years.

The iPad wasn't as big of a problem when it was the only real tablet available because it cost $500+. Nowadays I see little kids, families of them and each kid has their own tablet and they're sitting on a flight playing games for 4-5 hours of a flight. These are like $150 tablets. 

This is why I've said in the other thread, they need to accept that being no.3 in the console race is unacceptable. They cannot have a low selling console while having such erosion in the portable market. At some point you have to say enough is enough and fight for marketshare. Specifically I say they need to target Microsoft's share of the console market (battling against Sony may too difficult because Sony has their shit together quite frankly on the console side). 

The whole "we can have a crappy selling console because we're selling 15-20 million portables a year" strategy doesn't work anymore because they're not selling portables at that rate anymore. 

The only thing I disagree with here is your assessment of the target market they need to be courting. Targetting Microsoft's share would be suicide, Sony wasn't able to convince those buying a Xbox One to swap, why do you think Nintendo will be able to. The audience they need to target is those more willing to swap allegiences generation to generation and currently most of those are sitting with Sony, Sony is the easier target with far less resources to fight in a battle and far more market share that is vulnerable to a good console with a good gaming strategy, successfully targetting this audience would also naturally pick up some of the MS share as well. Thing that remains to be seen though is if Nintendo are even capable of doing this.



JetSetter on 08 December 2015

Sucks to see that the shipments have been on the downswing, but I guess that's to be expected with what's been happening with the Wii U and the fact that the 3DS is getting up there in years. While FY15 isn't looking to be the worst year shown here it isn't looking too pretty.

Seeing this makes me all the more curious on what NX could possibly be.