Tue, Feb 01, 2011 | 06:27 GMT
Nintendo Q1: Cash collapses, global software dates updated, DS hardware down 45%
Nintendo’s shown big drops in both profit and sales for the period ending June 30, with the company making a loss for the period.
Sales were down 25.6 percent for the quarter, dropped to ¥188.6 billion from ¥253.5 billion in the same period last year.
Operating income dropped 42.2 percent, down to ¥23.3 billion from ¥40.4 billion in the previous year. The company was actually in loss for the quarter, with net income minus ¥25.2 billion yen compared to a profit of ¥42.3 billion yen last year, a drop of 60.6 percent.
Wii the Invincible; DS, not so much
Wii hardware sales stood at 3.04 million units, up from the 2.23 million sold in the first quarter of FY ’09, a rise of 36.6 percent
Wii software dropped, however, down to 28.17 million copies in the period from 31.07 million last year. That’s a fall of 9.3 percent.
DS hardware sold 3.15 million units in the quarter down from 5.7 million in the same period last year, a slide of 44.7 percent.
DS software managed 22.42 million sales, down from 29.09 million in Q1 ’09, a decrease of 22.9 percent.
Super software
Despite general woes, Nintendo saw some huge sales from its top software line-up, as seen below:
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 – 4.09 million.
- Wii Sports Resort – 3.02 million
- Wii Sports – 2.73 million
- Wii Fit Plus – 1.87 million
- New Super Mario Bros. Wii – 1.1 million
Please release me
Nintendo updated its global release schedules alongside the results.
Kirby’s Epic Yarn has now been confirmed for the first calendar quarter of 2011 in Europe, and “fall” in the US. It’s still listed as “TBA” in Japan.
Hit the image below for all the new dates by region.
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19 comments
#1
Tonka
29/07/10, 9:35 am
OMG DOOMED!
#2
Patrick Garratt
29/07/10, 9:36 am
All the new release dates there now.
#3
Blerk
29/07/10, 9:47 am
No Euro Kirby for Christmas? Fuck’s sake, Nintendo! What am I going to tell the kids now?
#4
Blerk
29/07/10, 9:52 am
You seem to have missed the actual profit figures, Pat. Or should I say ‘loss figures’, which is rather surprising.
“Nintendo has posted a loss of 25.2 billion yen ($288.4m / £184.3m) for its fiscal first quarter ended June 30, compared to a profit of 42.3 billion yen a year earlier.”
Edit: That’s from Edge, btw.
#5
Patrick Garratt
29/07/10, 9:57 am
Yep, they’re right. I’ve updated that.
#6
Blerk
29/07/10, 10:04 am
The arse appears to have fallen out of their market. Was there something in Q1 last year which boosted sales above what you’d usually expect for that period?
Anyway, serves them right for upsetting my kids!
#7
Patrick Garratt
29/07/10, 10:06 am
When I got the figures from Q1 last year, it looked as though they were well down compared to the previous year even then. I’ll check in a sec.
#8
JonFE
29/07/10, 10:21 am
I guess the 3DS cannot come soon enough under the light of this; Christmas 2010 anyone?!?
#9
alimokrane
29/07/10, 10:42 am
They made a loss overall? Seriously?
#10
Tonka
29/07/10, 10:57 am
@#3 You could inform them of the wonders of ILLEGALLY PIRATING SOFTWARE!
#11
Blerk
29/07/10, 11:02 am
We’ll buy something LEGO-based for the 360 instead. Take that, Nintendo! You fuckers!
/makes hand gestures
#12
Tonka
29/07/10, 11:14 am
That’ll learn em’lol
#13
Tonka
29/07/10, 11:16 am
btw, I heard the Kirby delay was due to NoE having trouble with coming up with a confusing name for the EU localization. (see Kirby on the DS)
#14
Madlink
29/07/10, 11:20 am
Odd that Nintendo haven’t revised their annual forecast despite these figures. Perhaps they expected these figures and adjusted accordingly in advance.
And Blerk, isn’t subjecting the kids to that some sort of child abuse?
#15
Blerk
29/07/10, 11:21 am
LEGO games or Kirby?
#16
SOMI
29/07/10, 11:27 am
@15
Kirby it’s a no brainer
Best move to America if your kids are that desperate, or you can just import it over but you have to have American Wii though.
#17
grubbstar
29/07/10, 11:35 am
Bulk of the loss was due to Ferign Exchange though – They had a 20bn positive impact in the previous year, but this year a 70bn Yen loss
#18
The Hindle
29/07/10, 11:54 am
Much deserved sales for Mario Galaxy 2, playing it at the moment and its by far the best game of this year so far in my opinion. I can see it being the biggest selling as well.
#19
LOLshock94
29/07/10, 10:27 pm
finally no1 is buying there shit i want them to fall so that they give up on casual gamers and start making ganes for fucking hardcore gamers but just no mario party no1 likes that shit no more