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Title: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Shaymin on January 30, 2017, 06:46:10 PM

Did Pokémon cause big bucks, or is the final Switch push a whammy?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/44060/nintendo-releases-third-fiscal-quarter-financial-results

The holiday quarter with the release of Pokémon Sun and Moon was a lucrative one for Nintendo, and the company produced an operating profit as a result.

As well, Nintendo did announce an increase in their profit expectation for the full fiscal year, though the Animal Crossing mobile project was delayed out of fiscal 2017.

Financial Indicators

Hardware and Amiibo Sales:

Software Sales:

Game sales milestones:

Upcoming release schedule highlights:

Project Giant Robot has been removed from the schedule along with all other Wii U games, but Dr. Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training (Europe) has not been removed from the company's release calendar.

Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Wanderlei on January 31, 2017, 04:29:48 AM
needs more numberwang tbh
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: NWR_insanolord on January 31, 2017, 04:51:45 AM
Only selling 200,000 Wii Us worldwide in an entire quarter is impressively terrible.
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Luigi Dude on January 31, 2017, 09:38:56 AM
Quote from: NWR_insanolord on January 31, 2017, 04:51:45 AM
Only selling 200,000 Wii Us worldwide in an entire quarter is impressively terrible.

That's pretty good considering Nintendo recalled them from the West during the holiday.  Seriously, I'm surprised there was even that many still around considering I haven't seen one at any stores in months.
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Evan_B on January 31, 2017, 10:38:40 AM
The Switch third party offerings sure do look bleak.
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Order.RSS on January 31, 2017, 12:39:22 PM
Out of curiosity, when you divide the lifetime software sales by lifetime hardware you should get a rough mean amount of games the average consumers buys, no?

96.5/13.56= 7.11 games per Wii U
320/65.3= 4.9 games per 3DS

Obviously super basic way of going about this, there's bound to be a ton of outliers skewing these results. But the 3DS average seems a bit low to me perhaps? Maybe a bunch of people just ONLY buy Pokémon on it, so they have 2 or 3 games max?
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: nickmitch on January 31, 2017, 02:17:56 PM
Pokemon is definitely a factor, but keep in mind how many people buy 2 (or more systems).  There's been 4 versions of the hardware, so people (like myself) could've upgraded at some point.
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Shaymin on January 31, 2017, 02:45:38 PM
Quote from: NWR_insanolord on January 31, 2017, 04:51:45 AM
Only selling 200,000 Wii Us worldwide in an entire quarter is impressively terrible.

They predicted 800k for the fiscal year and probably just shipped the last 40,000 or so to Japan to finish it off. But yeah, Sun and Moon outsold the frickin' Wii U inside of 6 weeks.
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Mop it up on January 31, 2017, 05:18:12 PM
Quote from: Luigi Dude on January 31, 2017, 09:38:56 AM
That's pretty good considering Nintendo recalled them from the West during the holiday.
I thought this was just a rumor, but I haven't looked into it. Is there some proof that this happened?

Quote from: Steefosaurus on January 31, 2017, 12:39:22 PM
96.5/13.56= 7.11 games per Wii U
320/65.3= 4.9 games per 3DS

Obviously super basic way of going about this, there's bound to be a ton of outliers skewing these results. But the 3DS average seems a bit low to me perhaps? Maybe a bunch of people just ONLY buy Pokémon on it, so they have 2 or 3 games max?
Historically, handhelds generally have lower attach rates than consoles. One reason is because handhelds tend to have lots of revisions, which means that the same person could be buying more than one system which will lower the attach rate. A family may also buy a 3DS system for each member, but buy only one copy of games to share.

That said, the 3DS attach rate does still seem pretty low compared to the DS and other handhelds.
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Lemonade on January 31, 2017, 08:28:15 PM
Over 65m for the 3DS now, thats very impressive. I hope the Switch is at least this popular too.
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: King of Twitch on February 02, 2017, 12:37:31 AM
Quote from: Lolmonade on January 31, 2017, 08:28:15 PM
Over 65m for the 3DS now, thats very impressive. I hope the Switch is at least this popular too.

You can count on it.  ;) Nintendo has done an impressive job learning from its mistakes and getting in touch with their customers' needs. Keeping the slow burn on announcements was the right call: social media has been buzzing for weeks and blown the lid off of the hype train engine. It's the best rollout they've ever had since Spaceworld. I can't wait for March 3!
Title: Re: Nintendo Releases Third Fiscal Quarter Financial Results
Post by: Evan_B on February 02, 2017, 01:23:25 AM
What a breath of fresh air!