SinCityAssassin
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Price cut seems more likely, considering they have titles releasing into Winter. Being THE budget handheld to the Nintendo Switch has its own merits to capitalize on.
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Nintendo 2016 Fiscal Year Earnings Release: Targeting 10 million Switches this f-year
Price cut seems more likely, considering they have titles releasing into Winter. Being THE budget handheld to the Nintendo Switch has its own merits to capitalize on.
DeuceGamer
Member
Yea, I think a nice price cut could help keep momentum for another year along with the release schedule they have.
Well. What if they are releasing another hardware revision and #
2DMetroid3DS
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test_account
XP-39C²
Yeah, thats probably the last time i've seen it (during the earlier 3DS/WiiU day), years ago. I've also seen some more pessimistic preditction regarding the Switch, but i didnt see anyone talking about Nintendo as a company going under. Thats what i read into it regarding Nintendo being doomed at least.
SinCityAssassin
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They were doomed just last month when people were reminded about the voice chat phone app.
test_account
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Citation needed
R
Rösti
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This makes me optimistic for details on Nintendo's E3 2017 plans to be disclosed during the FY 2016 Financial Results Briefing tomorrow. The FY 2015 Financial Results Briefing featured details on Nintendo's plans for E3 2016.
Come on, Retro!
AquaWateria
Member
The release is not happening in this financial year imo, but the reveal could still drive people to buy a Switch.
Next year could have Retro, Animal Crossing, Smash, Super Mario Maker 2 and more, should be great!
olimpia84
Member
Rösti;234870274 said:A photo of Tatsumi Kimishima from the news conference:
Photo credit: Kyodo via AP Images.
I am waiting for two other photos to become available.
He looks the same in every damn picture haha
Pretty much lol
6 million is a lot. Another push with a new hardware revision makes sense. So does #2DMetroid3DS.
Or maybe they're conservative with the Switch but to greedy with the 3ds : P.
And I guess Metroid is a joke since it wouldn't be the type of title that would sell especially so much.
The best I could see is a title shared between 3ds and Switch.
Not for 2017 though.
They won't release most of their best seller series all in first year.
I don't see AC this year (and not so much Pokemon either, but we never know).
Holy Order Sol
Member
Initially read the title as "this fucking year" which also works tbh
DrBillRiverman
Member
Whew. 10 mil...
Doable, but that's a big fucking number man.
Gotta keep that momentum up, Mario needs to make big motions.
Doable, but that's a big fucking number man.
Gotta keep that momentum up, Mario needs to make big motions.
Dark Cloud
Member
OH BOY I'm seeing Stars!
Wait it doesn't stand for that? Lmao all this time I thought it meant that to be funny.
https://twitter.com/mochi_wsj/status/857555364404895744
okay I think it's safe to say Mon Hun Switch will happen this year
okay I think it's safe to say Mon Hun Switch will happen this year
In picture form.
Chances are they'll add > 1mil in april, everything they shipped in every market is sold out, and they must have foreseen both the launch of Mario Kart 8 and Golden week in japan for extra shippings.
(actually based on what we know the shippings are for JPN (about 40-50k a week + MK8/golden week boost) and what they shipped for march we can assume 300k japan, 600k US and 450k other are certainly possible)
So it'll be less than 9 million in 11 months including the holidays... They'll make it.
AquaWateria
Member
Seeing the demand in Japan it was inevitable.
FreedomFighter
Member
Yeah, buddy.
This "fiscal" year, haha.
that's how i read it too. It makes more sense, though.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Things.
someone create an f-zero thread.
Grats. Now where's my switch badge arcade and themes?
Huh. Exciting. I'd be amazing if the stars thing actually happens lol.
Huh. Exciting. I'd be amazing if the stars thing actually happens lol.
metalslimer
Member
Huh? It's weird I came in here thinking 10 million was pretty conservative. I don't see them having a problem hitting that number at all.
Skittzo0413
Member
Wow, those are some Nintendo-like profits! Also 2.74M is a good deal higher than most of us thought, very impressive.
Hmmm I thought NPD and NoA reported 906k for NA in March, while this is showing 1.2M for the Americas. Does this suggest ~300k sold in Central/South America?
Rösti;234862285 said:Nintendo Switch Sales Units in Ten Thousands
Hmmm I thought NPD and NoA reported 906k for NA in March, while this is showing 1.2M for the Americas. Does this suggest ~300k sold in Central/South America?
It does.
Herb Alpert
Banned
It is.
And Canada, yes.
906K was sell-through for US market, 1.2M is sell-in for Americas.
Skittzo0413
Member
Ah, I thought the NPD and NoA numbers included Canada but I guess Nintendo of Canada is a separate entity.
I actually would've thought 300k was very impressive for a launch in South America but if Canada accounted for a big portion of that it makes a bit more sense.
Also for the Switch launch sell-in should be roughly equal to sell-through. Can't be more than ~1% off, right?
LordOcidax
Member
Damn... Zelda.... BTW.. So 10M for FY17 so that means FY16=2.7M+FY17=10 = 12.7M By March 2018? And some says that's conservative...Fuck.. Thats really close to WiiU LTD.
Exterminieren
Banned
Let's shoot for the Stars.
frankie_baby
Member
The number was clearly stated as USA also I'd imagine there's a not insignificant number that are sold to retailers in the last days of the FY that dont make it on to shelves in time to be sold to consumers in the NPD reporting period
Nintendo PR about NPD specifically mentioned that numbers were US numbers.
Seeing as they never are in stock longer than a few hours anywhere according to GAF reports, I would think that (maybe 2% or 3%, there's always the backlands where supposedly hundreds of units lie on store shelves) is a reasonable guess.
My curiousity lies in how well zelda sells this year. If they expect Switch to sell 10 million this FY, do we all expect Zelda to keep its near perfect attach ratio? Are we gonna see a huge surge in Zelda sales every time another big game releases and new gamers jump on board?
frankie_baby
Member
Not at all, the attach rate will drop noticably but it should still do decent numbers this FY maybe close to another million on Wii U and 3 to 4 on switch is my guess
SinCityAssassin
Member
A bit less than the 13.60-ish million that have been produced in its entirety.
Console was discontinued in October 2016 therefore should be the same as December 2016.
LordOcidax
Member
13.56M, And conservative expectations for the Switch is 12.7M by March 18.
The Hermit
Member
This gif is incredible
Thanks all. I forgot it was discontinued.