"We've made some progress in profit but in many ways we didn't score perfectly," Chief Executive Satoru Iwata told reporters at a briefing in Osaka. Iwata is hoping to steer Nintendo to its first annual operating profit in four years.
Reuters:
"Many of Japan's manufacturing companies have significant operations outside the country and are likely to see a positive impact on earnings from the yen's weakness. Separately Wednesday, camera and office equipment maker Canon Inc also reported a profit boost helped by the yen's slide.
For Nintendo, the foreign exchange gains may ease short-term pressure to overhaul strategy.
But analysts have called on Chief Executive Satoru Iwata to shift to focus on mobile devices and to allow its games to be played on machines built by competitors. He has resisted such pressure so far, pinning hopes on making hits out of games such as "Mario Kart 8"."
Hanzala from eXputer: "The cruel hammer of Nintendo has fallen. Farewell, 3DS and Wii U, you surely brightened my life and many others; you won't be forgotten."
Hanzla from eXputer inquires: "If Xbox can care about preserving its games and legacy, what exactly is wrong with Nintendo, trying to kill game preservation single-handedly?"
Ahh yes the good old game preservation of saving all your games to a removable hhd on the Xbox 360, taking it round your mates house, setting up multiple tvs to
Be met with “save data corrupted, please re download”
Or how about removing 360 games
From the store
, download them now or else, and, better hope to god that save data doesn’t corrupt, or it’s lost for ever
Nice one ☝️
This is just a scammy PR move to distract from the fact they are going digital only and trying to push streaming and subscriptions only.
No gaming company has pushed harder to remove ownership than Microsoft.
Without discs there is no preservation, preservation can't be done by the rights holders it can only be done by the consumers, anything else is a lie.
Nobody wants this. Sales or the lack of it in the case of XBOX is very telling. I wonder how the adorably all digital series X will fare. Adorably dismal perhaps?
Only time will tell, but for from someone like me suspecting that Xbox is trying to gracefully exit the console market, that "forward compatibility" team is trying to get Xbox games playing on Windows PCs. I mean, it's nice that they're not planning on exiting with a "enjoy your games while the hardware still works" message, so that's nice. They still have a brand to protect via Microsoft so probably feel obligated to have a better exit strategy.
Danish from eXputer: "Nintendo has historically gone against player-made content and emulation of its games. This has done much to harm the company's image."
They need to stop announcing these mods and fan remakes until they're finished. Finish it, upload it, and then if Nintendo dmca's it tough shit. Once it's online, people can share it around, even if the original download gets taken down.
This is all coming from the mouth of short-sighted fandom and grifting madness.
No.... it wont. There is a clear defined reason why they don't. This is nothing new. Make your own shi7 from your own original ideas especially if you are trying to capitalize of it it. Duh.
Yeah, hire people that have zero respect or understanding for an established process. Wow. Yep. Totally makes sense.
You'd think Amiibo sales would almost make up for it. Damn things lol
This is exactly why I believe their next console will be coming sooner than a lot of believe. They just can't sit there for long a bleed money.
Iwata, master of excuses, and subject of one of the greatest internet memes: "Please understand".
I don't see how a new console would help the fact they can't release a game based on link or metroid every year.
If they did get dying light on a new ninty console would it have 1080p60fps with better gfx than ps4? Cause the 20 million who just bought a ps4x1 and wiiU prob would not spring for it.
Only people left is those still on last gen but prob don't have the budget anyway.
Man I would love to see them pull a 2009 Apple turn around...
You know the big dogs at Nintendo hate telling there share holders profit is down cause of low console sells after Ps4 n X1 are breaking sell records, if I was a share holder of nintendo I would ask for someone job!!! Two reasons 1st for making a wii with a gamepad n not the controller that made Wii sell so good, 2nd for not going true Next gen just doing Wii 1.5,
If Nintendo was smart they would have went with a true next gen system with a controller for hardcore gamers, n got third party from the start.... They would have sold record number systems for the plus side, not record low numbers