http://youtu.be/LTQxUdKa7AM

Been watching Kwings news on Nintendo Wii and such on YouTube and it doesn't sound to good. Mostly the problem seems to be the 3DS and the Wii sales arn't doing to good and I can see why.
Mostly Nintendo has mostly released kid friendly games and maybe once in a blue moon might make a game for the casual and hard core gamers. Another problem Nintendo has is that they always capitalized on their core games like Mario, Link, Metriod and Donkey Kong but rarely try to venture out to other areas. Also their CEO has even blame the consumer for falling sale and that's a no-no, Never blame your customers for your companies problems. Blaming the consumer will cause folks to seek out a new system to play on. Now I like Nintendo, it was the gaming platform I grew up with along with Sega and I like to see them release more original games rather then keep with their core characters----but that's probably never going to happen.

Aren't they disregarding how early in it's life the wii was pretty much printing money?

I think that's how most gaming companies work, sure the Wii made them tons of money when it first launch (you couldn't even buy one on chirstmas when it first came out) but they care more of the money that comes in now, any success it did in the past is irrelevant.

I would disagree. If that were the case, Bethesda would have closed up shop long ago - they've gone through many multi-year income dips while developing their games, and use the huge amounts of income generated on release years to see them through those dry patches (and expand even, as seen by recent times).

That's pretty much how most businesses operate. Just because you did super awesome in the short run, doesn't mean one will perform well in the long run.

The 360 and PS3 had a slower start, especially the latter, but both are doing better in the long run.

As for me, I would love to buy the Wii and 3DS, there are plenty of games that I have been dying to play, but I don't have the capital and time to invest into those systems.

Nintendo aren't in trouble. Even if Wii revenues would suddenly plummet and the 3DS bombs, they are financially secure enough to take a big blow and keep going.

Meh. They are doing Ok. Not as good as in 08, but not in any way bad.

While Wii sales are down, Nintendo is far from being "in trouble." The Wii, like all Nintendo hardware since the GameCube, was sold at a profit from day one (as far as manufacturing costs go, and I imagine they've long surpassed R&D expenses). Not only that, but they have a fairly decent lineup for the rest of the year including Syward Sword in all regions, Pandora's Tower and the new Kirby in Japan, Xenoblade Chronicles in Europe and, according to Iwata, a number of unannounced titles. There's also Dragon Quest X, which according to Square we can expect to see towards the end of the year. I don't need to tell you how Dragon Quest games are received in Japan.

The greatest threat to Nintendo's profits is the strength of the Japanese yen. Nintendo takes a hit on every system it exports.

As for the 3DS, it sold 3.6m units since launch, just shy of Nintendo's 4m estimates. It's more expensive than any handheld Nintendo has ever sold and it launched without a single "must have" title. All things considered, it's doing fairly well. The Nintendo DS was in a similar position until the release of the DS Lite and more games, which the 3DS has. In addition to a number of highly anticipated ports that'll surely drive the nostalgia sale, there are original third-party titles such as Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance, Resident Evil: Revelations, Mega Man Legends 3, Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney, Beyond the Labyrinth, etc.

If 3DS sales don't pick up by the end of this year then I'll eat my hat.

And I believe they made a profit on the Wii from day one, unlike MS and Sony who took huge losses ...

Nintendo is not in trouble although their biggest problem is indeed too many kid focused games. (Those kids do grow up you know) :biggrin:

I blame the economy/Japan Earthquake for the low numbers about 80% of it the other 20 being no good games on the Wii that people would want to get.

I hear new ones spring up from time to time too.

Nintendo has been declining ever since sony and microsoft has come out with their consoles. I remember when Nintendo was the big power house, but as in every sort of situation in business, there will always come another company that will either be a thorn in the Power house's side, or take them down in an instant. I think that Sony and Microsoft haven't totally defeated Nintendo yet, but they have just been nipping at Nintendo's sides for so long that it seems as if Nintendo is going to become the lesser of the consoles real soon. But lets wait and see what happens when the next generation consoles come out. After those come out, I want to see if my THEORY is correct or not.

Not in Japan. ZING!

Well not if they continue to marry "people" who http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/11/30/japanese-man-marries-anime-video-game-character/. :happy:

Yeah I'd say Sony is in deeper water at the moment.

what......?

With the latest PSN embarrassment, I'd say they're in deeper water than the other two.

I'm sure there are plenty of men from the west willing to help with this issue :wink_smile: .

I think the 360's Kinetic and PS Move might be the reason Nintendo's Wii sales aren't doing so well. The motion controller was the Wii bread and butter and it was a hot thing, however both the PS3 and 360 now have there motion controllers and such that it's just uniqe anymore. As for the 3DS---it looks cool but it's what Kwing said not a lot gamers are interested in 3D games. I mean it's a cool feature and it might need a little tweaking with but what good is a handheld (or game unit) that causes headachs if you can only play it for a short time? Plus not having a strong line up on launch day doesn't help with sales either.

well, not always :whistling:

I can see their sales jump once the summer kicks in with releases like Resident evil, Star Fox (lylat wars), Ocarina of time ect and im sure that the mario games as well as kid icarus will also be released sometime during the summer.

I think they just made a mistake by releasing the DSi/XL.


And they better [censored] make another advanced wars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i [censored] LOVE that series.

It didn't give me any headaches :shrug:

Anyway, I wouldn't say that Nintendo is in trouble. I think that everyone has already bought a Wii and that is why sales have declined

With the release of their new console soon, I think that they will be rolling in the money again.

But I will agree that they do need to start introducing more hardcoe gamer titles. But if they are smart, which they are, they will keep aiming for the general public, since that is a bigger audience and will bring in more income.

I think I remember hearing that sales are down 66% for nintendo. I like nintendo. I owned an NES SNES N64 and Gamecube, but have since moved on.

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I love that song

Did you mean to link to a different article or video?

I watched the entire clip, but didn't see any reference at all to any sort of reduced sales or profit for Nintendo. On the contrary, they have released numerous 3DS and Wii titles in the multi-million units.

Personally, I think the 3DS will ultimately have limited appeal outside of Japan because it lacks cell phone functionality, when most smart phones can play games, but I haven't heard anything so far about Nintendo having any financial difficulties whatsoever.

Not sure I understand why a 3ds not doubling as a cell phone has to do with anything. You don't buy a portable gaming system to also use as a cell phone. You don't buy a cell phone to play games on. Yes cell phones have games on them, but they aren't anything to speak of really. You're never going to get a Legend of Zelda on a cell phone, you'll never get a Mario Bros. on a cell phone. Maybe crappy little ports, but nothing of the caliber that can be seen on a portable gaming system. Even sony realizes that, that's why they are releasing both a new smart phone thing alongside the NGP(PSP2), because they realize you can't combine the two in a truly significant way. Not to mention, I personally would NEVER want the two to be combined. Who wants to be getting knee-deep in a gripping RPG only to have the damn thing start ringing and cut me out of my game? The ability to ignore a cell phone without compromising your game playing time is integral imho.