Punching Beta: Why are the Japanese giants in hot water?
It’s no secret that Nintendo has seen a massive loss in the past few months since the introduction of their Wii U console. But fortunately, Nintendo has been saved by the sales of their handheld and software sales, albeit just barely saved. So why is the Wii U failing to sell? Are customers looking at Nintendo in the wrong light?
The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.
Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.
Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.
It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.
A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.
People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers
Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.
I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.
The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷♂️
I would argue that people are just still largely unaware or uninterested (though mostly the former). It's a neat console. I just thought Nintendo rather piss-poorly managed to promote the damn thing when it came out almost a year ago. Launch sales weren't even all that terrible. It sold nearly three million units in two months. Then the sales plateaued and went kaput because Nintendo failed to keep momentum.
Beyond that there have been few large scale software releases until right up to now and the best third party support it's been seeing is from indie developers since the big name devs feel it necessary to release gimped ports at full price.
So if you want an answer for "Why?" just ask your average joe, would you buy a Wii U? They will probably give you one of two reasons.
1. What's a Wii U?
2. Does it have the games I want to play?
3ds is a beast tho ...!!
Considering the the 3DS is the biggest selling piece of gamin hardware on the market right now. Topped with more recent news the Pokemon X and Y sold out preorders sold out in Japan in 9 hours. That will more than make up for the slow sales of the Wii U. In the mean time it is true that Nintendo wont have the astronomical profits of the the Wii era Nintendo is a long long way away from being bankrupt. To prove this to ignorant people they ever released an extremely in depth loot at their sales data. You can find that article on Destructoid. According to Nintendo they have 6 billion dollars in back up cash for hard times. So when they post a 30 million dollar quarterly loss and people scream doom and gloom. All the people that know what they are talking about can sit back and laugh. Nintendo is going to be around for a long long time.
Nintendo got lucky with the Wii by attracting non gamers. The same non gamers who played it for a month and then put it away to gather dust. The same non gamers who have now gone back to whatever they were doing before the Wii came out never to return. Lightening doesnt strike twice and so now they are competing yet again on the same field as SONY and MS and we all know how thats gonna go.
Well, when you do the biggest 180 of all time (bigger than Xbone's), you're surely going to get confused people. NES-GameCube were all hardcore consoles, awesome. Wii was marketed as a family and fitness gaming machine. Nintendo, out of all the stupid things they could have done, they went with the most idiotic, and reverted back to the hardcore. Like I've been saving forever, Nintendo should have made another console like the Wii for about another generation or two. Exactly like the Wii, but now with HD Mario on the side!
That, or should have priced the Wii U at $200, $250 the most.