In a move that has shocked investors and industry analysts, Nintendo has adjusted its expected net down from ¥345bn to ¥230bn, a drop of more than a billion dollars. Do they know something we don’t?
Nintendo, for all appearances, had a bumper year. Those famous November sales numbers implied that the Wii was as strong a seller this year as it was last year. They’ve said that they sold a million more Wiis than they expected in 2008, so that can’t be the culprit. No one really knows what’s happening, really. Perhaps manufacturing costs haven’t gone down as much as they’d like, or maybe post-holiday sales aren’t nearly what they hoped. Whatever the case, at least they’re being semi-up-front about it.
By the way, in the illustration above, Mario represents Nintendo, and the first Goomba is the market. The second Goomba is the unknown, backing the market as it slays Nintendo, represented by Mario as I have already explained.
or perhaps they know that the market is saturated and that microsoft and sony will be unleashing 3 dimensional controllers this year (the wii controller is only 2, even with the module), making any and everyone over the age of 13 who has a wii severely regret the decision bwahahahahahaha.
seriously though, its only $150 for the xbox arcade right now on amazon and for an extra $100, you can get three BRAND NEW games, plus the HDMI out, plus a 60GB hard drive from dell right now (go to techbargains.com to get the coupon codes)! if only microsoft would wise up and let you go on the internet with the 360, it’d be unstoppable.
and just for comparison, the wii is $250 right now. for the same price, xbox 360 comes with the hard drive and 3 brand new games and its 1080P HIGH DEF baby. get in the game.
even sega loves it!
Gamasutra is reporting it’s because of the strengthening yen.