{"id":15658,"date":"2012-04-30T10:48:41","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T15:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/?p=15658"},"modified":"2024-01-14T22:00:40","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T04:00:40","slug":"nintendo-reports-nearly-half-billion-in-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.friedyoda.com\/noisecast\/2012\/04\/nintendo-reports-nearly-half-billion-in-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo reports nearly half-billion in losses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Looks like there’s trouble in the Mushroom Kingdom, Nintendo’s latest quarterly earnings report is not looking good. According to a report in Forbes, the Big N reported a net loss to the tune of $461.2M – worse still, selling the Nintendo 3DS at a loss isn’t helping matters either.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worse still is the projected plan to right the ship; Nintendo’s quarterly report seems to be hedging their bets on a continued stream of rehashed, re-released, or updated versions of their own properties. It appears that Nintendo is expecting to make the 3DS profitable with more Link, Mario, and Donkey Kong games and little contribution from third-parties. This is starting to read like a really bad Greek tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there’s a silver lining to be found it’s in Nintendo’s plans to work extensively with third-party developers for their upcoming Wii U console. Let’s hope that the Wii U can truly stun and motivate game development, otherwise Nintendo can just go ahead and start investing in red ink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sources: Forbes<\/a>, Nintendo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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