Nintendo Q109 results drown company in billions

...umm going with the flow of angry rants about everything from universal truth, nintendo "not caring" about its core audience,and buisness strategies...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Uh, this should be Fiscal Year 2008, not 2009.

It prints money. Too bad it can't press any good games.

The news of Nintendo's death has been greatly exaggerated.

Congrats Nintendo.

I have a dream:
That one day there will be no console fanboys. No one will treat any corporation like it’s their college football team. There will be no “Ra Ra Microsoft is the best” no “Ra Ra Sony” no “Ra Ra Nintendo”. There will only be video game fanboys and these people will go to wherever the games they enjoy are. They will never hate a video game console out of spite or superficial reasons. They will never feel the need to aggressively defend a corporation. No one’s loyalties will rest with a company. They will only ever seek out their next video game experience, wherever that may be.

It’s nice to dream an’t it?

Great SCOTT!

Where can I buy some of their stock?

I loves monies to

*goes to check NTDOY stock to see how much money I just made*

I don't know why people talk about only the Wii on Nintendo posts, the DS is THE system this generation. It has the broadest range of games, highest sales and the most wicked original exclusives.

I am happy for Nintendo because of the DS since I'm a hardcore handheld gamer. I have a ps2, but ever since 2004 I have played nothing but DS... and occasionally borrowing friends' systems. I like it because I can have my hardcore dungeon crawlers like Shiren the Wanderer, Izuna and Etrian Oddessey (AKA hardest games EVER) and some really different and innovative stuff like Phantom Hourglass and The World Ends With You... Not to mention wicked classics like FF3, FF4 and the upcoming Chrono Trigger, DQ4, DQ5 etc.

So congratulations Nintendo for making the best handheld system, that it supported greatly by every major developer and a lot of smaller indie developers.

I can't say I'm terribly concerned with how the Wii is affecting the market. I own a 360 and a Wii, and will probably pick up a PS3 when it becomes attractive enough for my wallet, and I'm a lifelong PC gamer to date as well.

Killjebus mentioned on page 1 that competition drives the market (or something to that effect), and this might lead to the belief that the Wii (and it's fantastic sales record) will drive the market in a more casual direction. Here's a few points to ponder along with that:

- 'Arcade' type functions on the PS3 and XBOX (XBLA, PSN) have sprung up and embraced casual games, allowing for 2 separate markets on the same console (You could include WiiWare in this, but honestly the entire console is geared towards casual games).

- If Nintendo continues to embrace lower performance/lower cost machines in future generations, this doesn't necessarily mean other companies will; Sony continues to make use of their PS2 sales and presence in the market, and could just as well do this with every console they produce. If the contrast between consoles increases (graphical performance, etc.) over the next generations, then you could very well see two extremely defined - and healthy - gaming markets.

- As graphical realism approaches the unfortunate stop of photorealism, the gap in console performance may disappear as a result of lowering hardware costs. There are, of course, other costs - processing power is probably chief amongst them (think AI and physics engines).

To say that Nintendo is not a competitor in this generation in terms of anything other than benchmark performance is entirely wrongheaded and incorrect. Sales define the fiscal competitive nature of a product; and while it's function may have something to do with this, irregardless of what you consider the Wii's merits as a gaming platform to be - it is still a gaming platform. Many people like myself own multiple consoles - however this is neither new to this generation, nor is it indicative of gap in the competitive nature of the three consoles. The Wii's sales, and popularity will continue to influence the rest of the market - making it a competitor in this generation, irregardless of graphical content, storage capability, or software.

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Congrats Nintendo on, once again, breaking you own profit margin record.

Also,

Thank you.

Thank you for giving an old fan your own brand of entertainment, not only through you own top-rate games on the Wii/DS, but also here at Joystiq where you cannot find a more concentrated form of bitter, bitter tears.

I salute you.

P.S.: Pikmin 3 and Punch-Out Wii plz!

Reposted for Comedic Value:

Originally Posted by Twee:

"Man Im loving the shit the anti-Nintendo kids are
tossing out today, pure gold I say. You guys are on fire. You shoot from the hip, every sentence is pure emotion...most of it fear and anger.

I love when you guys come up with nicknames for things you dont like (nintendonalds, wiisportsmachine), then repeat them over and over in a futile attempt to make them catch on. The whole time not realising that humour is out of your grasps and these nics wont keep going on teen ants alone..

Now please dont think I want you to stop mind you.."

Now will JohnMcPoop, cc123, vidikron, killjebus, and all the ps3/sony fanboys/nintendo HATERS please shut the fuck up?

You lost. Deal with it. Move on. Sell your Wii if it's causing you so much "pain" and you really think "Nintendo is destroying the industry".

Just shut up already. You've been proven to be full of shit.

Brawl alone however justifies owning a Wii so if you want to sell it that's YOUR LOSS.

Certainly not Nintendo. Cuz guess what? You abandoned Nintendo ages ago and now you want Nintendo to cater to your wish washy "hardcore" needs.

Well Nintendo is doing fine now without you and still making great titles for both hardcore and causal gamers alike. It's just that you guys are so wet for sony that you hate Nintendo with a passion.

So give ME some of that money, Nintendo.

Eh, worth a shot...

Right now if you put a Wii compatible label on a Bowflex or Thighmaster, it would sell millions. How gullible can people be? So Wiik!

Spending $300 plus for one game! What a Wiitard.

Nintendo & Risk don't stand together. They should not be spoken in the same sentence.

It's not risky to release a games console everyone thought would fail after the video game crash after all. The good ol' NES/Famicom sure wasn't much of a risk to Nintendo.

Developing a portable games device with 4 friggin shades of green into the market was not much of a risk. Everyone knew it would sell bajillions in its many iterations.

Developing a "portable" games system that can get you killed because you're staring into a static device with red lines wasn't a risk either.

Trying out new forms of controlling your character (D-pad, analogue sticks, the three prong controller from the n64, wii remote) are of course completely risk free.

Pioneering completely different forms of game play (Smash Bros, Pikmin, Mario Kart, etc) that were different from the norm is risk free as well.

I'm not saying other companies haven't innovated in the games industry nor am I claiming other companies have not taken risks with new forms of gaming. Just don't say that Nintendo is all about furthering what they have when it's a documented fact they have been taking risks since day 1 of their entry into the home console market.

Say what you want about the Wii. It's hard to argue with cold hard cash. Cue the other guys trying to copy and cash in!

Now you have the money, make a REAL console for once. Live up to the SNES.

Another Wii wont hack it anymore since the Wiimote is the only thing that makes it sell.

Yeah, maybe Nintendo is doing great, but it's only because it's a trendy gadget, like the iPhone. No one but Nintendo is selling any software because the sheep-like Nintendites don't buy games other than WiiFit or WiiPlay.

I haven't even turned on my Wii in about a month.

Yeh, drowning in money is never good.