RolStoppable said:
Here is the link to Nintendo's website. The question that precedes the quote you posted:
With regards to the financial performance, I believe you said that the fiscal year ending in March 2016 has been about balancing revenue and expenses, while the next fiscal year (ending in March 2017) will be a step towards aiming for Nintendo-like profits. Have these priorities changed at all? It seems like a lot of new endeavors, such as smart device business and amiibo sales, will need to go smoothly in order to realize Nintendo-like profits. If you had to provide one example of an area where you can be sure to achieve Nintendo-like profits, what would that be?
Here's the follow-up question:
Nintendo has been working to restore balance between revenue and expenses and has announced a number of new ventures during this and last fiscal years in order to realize Nintendo-like profits from next fiscal year on. How would you evaluate your current progress on your plans, such as reorganization and business partnerships? What areas need improvement in the future?
It's once again about the fiscal year that ends in March 2017. The closing paragraph of Kimishima's answer:
To achieve Nintendo-like profits, one important factor will be establishing a solid launch for our NX and smart device businesses. I believe the key to doing this is to allocate our resources appropriately to proceed with hardware and software development on schedule and deliver our products to our consumers in a timely manner.
Both in A3 and A4 Kimishima stresses that it's key to keep the development schedule on track and deliver in a timely manner. What else points to a 2016 launch of NX? Zelda, of course. A dual-release seemed like the logical thing to do since quite a while. Now the game is delayed into 2017 to coincide with the NX launch. Nintendo isn't on track with their schedule, that much is obvious. Unless you want to believe that they targeted a March launch all along. Do you believe that?
I already admitted that I was wrong about the year, some time earlier in this thread. I just wish people like you were this adamant when it comes to calling out people who rooted for a holiday 2017 launch of NX. Many of them are celebrating as if they were right, but it's only because of a delay that they got something right. The year, because their other beliefs were shattered into pieces.
And yes, this whole thing bothers me. Can't say that I was happy that the mods singled me out. It isn't good fun when the "winners" can't handle winning.
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Answer regarding Nintendo-like profits (response to "If you had to provide one example of an area where you can be sure to achieve Nintendo-like profits, what would that be?"): NX. Also Smartphones.
Notice that the actual question being asked didn't mention 2016-2017. That was just found in the statement prior to the question ("With regards to the financial performance, I believe you said that the fiscal year ending in March 2016 has been about balancing revenue and expenses, while the next fiscal year (ending in March 2017) will be a step towards aiming for Nintendo-like profits.").
Why are you trying to act as though the focus of the question had to be the same as the focus of the answer, when Kimishima's answer explicitly separated the two parts? More importantly, why are you trying to use what was asked AFTER Kimishima said it as some indication of what Kimishima was saying (especially given that that question says "from next fiscal year on", not "for next fiscal year")? You do realise that it was an investor asking the question, not a Nintendo employee asking a "Dorothy Dixer"?
I don't specifically think that they were targetting a March release all along. But I also don't think they were aiming for holiday 2016. I think they were developing with a "when it's ready" attitude, and they ended up with a March release when they analysed how long it would take. All evidence points to them having only recently made a decision - hence why they announced development last year, without any detail, and why they had been saying until the last few days that they would give information about the system "at a later date". They simply weren't ready to start giving details when the details weren't yet set in stone, so to speak.
I don't take a position on the "when in 2017" part of the argument. But here's the thing - as established, the argument was over 2016 vs 2017. Those who said holiday 2017 were in the "2017" camp, while those who said holiday 2016 were in the "2016" camp. Those who said holiday 2017 may have been wrong, but that's not what the bet was about. Note, by the way, that I didn't actually participate in the bet, mostly because I had about 4 different scenarios, none of which involved an NX console (as opposed to handheld) releasing in 2016. And if NX is a single system (and not two systems - handheld and console), which it appears to be, then my main prediction was early-to-mid 2017, although I also said that they could easily sustain until 2018 if they wanted (and it remains my opinion that a 2018 release would have been best - it would have required an extra year or so of treading water, but if it meant a huge launch, it would be worth it).
The problem, here, is that you participated in the "bet", said 2016 as your actual prediction, it wasn't 2016, and you refuse to make good on the bet. THAT is why you're being singled out, I suspect. I see no crow in your avatar. I also notice that you still insist on using quotation marks around "winners". In other words, even when you want to complain about them not being able to "handle winning", you can't admit, truly, that they won the bet. Whether their reasoning was accurate is irrelevant - they won. They are the winners. You lost.
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