From Nintendo's full year financial forecast:
The big numbers, from what I gather via the Bloomberg report, are:
- Nintendo lowers forecast from ¥55B profit to ¥25B LOSS.
- Forecast for Wii U sales lowered from 9 million to 2.8 million.
- Forecast for 3DS sales lowered from 18 million to 13.5 million.
The Bloomberg report also contains more info, but basically, it's fully apparent that Nintendo was out of touch, in some fashion, with the market. Going from a projected 55 billion yen profit for the year to a 25 billion yen loss is kind of a huge discrepancy, and that lowered number for the modified forecast for Wii U sales doesn't look too good either.
Does this mean certain things will change in relation to Nintendo sooner than later?
Previous Nintendo console numbers via NeoGAF:
N64
96/97 - 5.80 million
97/98 - 9.42 million
98/99 - 7.86 million
99/00 - 6.49 million
00/01 - 2.85 million
01/02 - 0.50 million
Total - 32.92 million
GameCube
01/02 - 3.80 million
02/03 - 5.76 million
03/04 - 5.02 million
04/05 - 3.92 million
05/06 - 2.35 million
06/07 - 0.73 million
07/08 - 0.16 million
Total - 21.74 million
Wii
06/07 - 5.84 million
07/08 - 18.61 million
08/09 - 25.95 million
09/10 - 20.53 million
10/11 - 15.08 million
11/12 - 9.84 million
12/13 - 3.98 million
13/14 - 0.47 million?
Total - 100.30 million
Wii U
12/13 - 3.45 million
13/14 - 2.80 million?
Satoru Iwata's explanation concerning the numbers. Lots of interesting stuff in it, one paragraph that stands out is the following:
We will provide more information on our short-term as well as mid-term prospects at the Corporate Management Policy Briefing to be held on January 30, 2014, which will take place in Tokyo a day after we announce our financial results for the third quarter.
So we might hear about Nintendo's plans to better their situation at the end of this month or the beginning of the next.
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