Nintendo have announced that their profits during the third quarter dropped to a staggering $1.3 billion compared to the previous year which saw the company’s operating profit at $2.31 billion during the same period.
Despite this the company hasn’t changed its operating profit forecast for this financial year and have announced that they’re sticking with $2.5 billion primarily because they’re launching the highly anticipated Nintendo 3DS on February 26th.
That backs up my theory that the 3DS was brought forward to get a higher profit during the fiscal year.
I’d agree with you on that one. I suspect Nintendo would have rather brought the 3DS out during the summer when the majority of first party titles will be ready.
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They should have waited.
No surprise there with profits being down 46%, there has been a dry up of awesome software released on both the Wii and DS systems.
I disagree. Donkey kong, 007 and Galaxy 2 are all recent and great games for Wii.
They’ll make a lot of money with the 3DS.