People, calm down. Even if Nintendo looses 250 million $ every year, it will take them 40 years, I repeat FORTY YEARS, to use up their short term cash reserves. As of March 2013 they had 10 billion $ in cash and short term investments on their balance sheet, so while realistically a business like Nintendo needs quite a chunk of cash to work, they are hardly in the need to rush.
The reason why the are thinking of realigning their strategy is that in the long run, meaning let's say in 5 years, the situation might be far worse if they don't shift with the market. That doesn't change that even if they make all the wrong decisions, Nintendo will still be around in 10 years. They simply have THAT much cash. Sega was a completely different story.
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