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[Time_Traveller]

Nintendo has cut its forecast for sales of its Wii console and handheld 3DS and warned that it will post a bigger than expected loss this year.


A strong yen and the prospect of ongoing economic gloom have been blamed for Nintendo's poor fortunes but the company's products are the real problem.


The 3DS has not been as successful as the company had hoped. The price has been cut so much that it's thought that Nintendo loses money on each device and the company has tried to shift its marketing focus because 3D seems not to be attracting consumers.


The company has sold more than 15 million 3DS units since the device launched in February last year but has revised down its estimates for the financial year from April 2011 to March 2012 from 16 million to 14 million units.

From http://www.telegraph...r-Nintendo.html

I think that they had there day and should definately get out of the Console Market because the Wii U will fail unless it's under £100, The Wii-U is little more than a PS3 catch-up machine, putting it where the PS3 was in 2005. Consider you get a PS3 around £160 now but what do members think?

[jjf3]

Nintendo's been long over for me. The Wii was their last chance. Then Xbox took that technology and invented kinect which is so much better than the silly wiimotes. And now they are moving towards a tablet? Seems like going back in time to bulkier game pads. The Wii at least had a chance to succeed and for a long time it did. But Nintendo has not been able to release any 3DS games really, nor is the technology all that great. With Apple and Android Markets plus the soon to be Windows App store and with social games like Words with Friends and even Minecraft doing better, Nintendo is done!

Nintendo is really childish to me. I'm not a gamer, but their games just do not entice me at all. Pretty colors and cute names, isn't going to make me buy the game. There are a few I would play on XBOX and even PS3 but not nintendo. Not anymore. In the 90s they were GREAT! Pokemon is still one of the top grossing, if not the top grossing video game franchise in history.

Edited by jjf3, 27 January 2012 - 05:14 PM.

[Dead Redshirt]

I think they did really well at first and managed to capture a market that hadn't been part of gaming, ie older people. But the problem is, they weren't able to continue keeping the momentum created by that, largely due to the shortcomings of the console itself. The internet is largely a social one, and I think the fact that the console didn't have a decent way to connect people within games hurt it a lot. Many have multiplayer features but don't have a decent way of connecting people, instead using a confusing code. It's decisions like that think really killed the momentum, in a world where internet gaming was only growing. I think that was a terrible decision.