for everyone stating doom and gloom. Keep in mind nintendo is making a profit even off of the wii-u. So basically they have wii profits + wiiu profits. So for them to go bankrupt is kind of ridiculous.

Naw not bankrupt, but i did hope if the wiiu flopped it would make nintendo give us a traditional console like the nes, snes, n64, and gamecube before it without gimmicks. Instead nintendo did what nintendo does... A system not focused on power and more focused on 1st party quality with that nintendo twist (gimmick) that started with the wii. The nintendo of yesteryear didnt need some gimmick to sell consoles. If the switch flops it will be too late for them to fall in line with a traditional console. And i think they know this with this "hybrid console" i think is them exiting the home console business. They have better luck with handhelds so its probably a smart move. Just dont expect it getting the third party love ($) it needs to stay a relevant third party player when for about the same price or cheaper you can get a superior version on other consoles. Dark Souls 3 on the switch will be 60$$ when for 25 you can get the xb1 or ps4 version.

I have a feeling it will be a Flop at least in the US. People love their PS4 or Xbox One too much. There is only a small percentage of people that own all consoles. I own all and I will be buying Nintendo Switch eventually.

Of course not

Considering no, no.

Nintendo.wont go bankrupt in asia but possible uk market would pull out
as it not worth selling there products here.

they did screw over people who bought there products.
which should not have happened
they should had left the wii for online connection and should had supported the ds xl more
but they simply killed them off after making the sales
except the wii u which is very powerful console but with programming the games and Nintendo strict rules in production of them
games company's got paid to bring out all these games for the wii u
but after it all done and the hype they where like not interested in it anymore to spend the amount of money and license
to product games for the wii u
which is a god dame shame as its looks a nice consoles system.

Nintendo dead consoles
wii
wii u
ds xl

Nintendo, bankrupt? It would take about 10 or more 'flops' consecutively for this ever to even be a consideration. Guaranteed Microsoft leaves the home console market long before Nintendo ever does...mark my words.

Not bankrupt but closer to bankruptcy than they've ever been before.

Bankrupt??No but it would put Nintendo future at risk for releasing another home console.

nintendo is filthy rich.. They wont go bankrupt but might go 3rd party

Yeah it's gonna suddenly evapourate over night. Look at Sega oh wait even they are still going. Sega don't even have the back catalogue Nintendo do so even if forced to go 3rd party which won't happen for another 5 years minimum being as their next console is being readied then Nintendo will do fine. They are no one trick pony. Mario, Zelda, Pokemon those 3 series alone will hopefully keep Nintendo in business long after I've gone and I'm only 30 ;) ✌🏻

Nope

Yup. 15 billion dollar company goes belly up because their console only sold 15 million instead of 60.

Perfectly feasible conclusion.

They wouldn't go bankrupt, but they'd no doubt stop console production and center on what they do best - after a meeting, and they'd go Mobile/Handheld only. Which, I feel they should've done a long time ago anyways.

no

You don't actually believe that do you? lol

Nintendo are rolling in money, they'll be fine

No, Nintendo won't go bankrupt and if anything this flop might finally make Nintendo change their approach to consoles. Make no mistake the Switch will not reach the numbers of a PS4 and Xbone. This console will be as successful as usual Nintendo consoles... which spoiler alert since the SNES has always been on a decline.

Some needs to explain to gaming media writers what bankruptcy means.

So... I'll explain it.

Bankruptcy legally frees you from your debts (money you owe) at the cost of certain conditions, for example the director of the company cannot sit on a board of directors for a certain period of time.

For Nintendo to go bankrupt, it will need to satisfy the following conditions;

- It will need to owe money to someone
- It will need to make less money than it owes
- The person/company that lent Nintendo money has to demand the money back
- Nintendo and the creditor fail to reach a repayment plan
- Nintendo goes into receivership (another company -- called an administrator -- takes over Nintendo and makes moves to make enough money to pay back the debt. This includes everything from firing staff, running the business as usual, doing stuff like selling Mario to Microsoft, etc)
- The administrator fails to make enough money to repay the debts
- The creditor takes Nintendo to court
- The court demands Nintendo makes an immediate payment
- Nintendo files for bankruptcy
- Bankruptcy court declares Nintendo bankrupt

Now, that's a HUGE journey for Nintendo to go down even if the Switch is unsuccessful. Nintendo's income doesn't only come from gaming consoles. The company makes money from all sorts of things, from manufacturing playing cards for Vegas to licensing patents to external companies you've never heard of. It also has a huge stash of cash that could sustain its worse ever financial loss for 70 years. And perhaps most importantly, Nintendo is a publicly listed company which means it makes money from selling tiny parts of its company -- called "shares -- to the public. Selling shares nets Nintendo billions of dollars every year.

Knowing the assets Nintendo owns (IP like Mario, real estate all over the world, distribution centres, retail outlets, thousands of patents, etc), I can't fathom any reason why its entire company is hinged on the success of Switch.

But let's play out a hypothetical scenario where Switch does cause Nintendo massive financial grief. The board resign, a new CEO is elected, younger people come in to run the company who take it in a new direction. Nintendo is decades away from an extinction level event.

Note: I'm not a financial genius and someone will probably point out that there are other steps/conditions to going bankrupt but the general outline above is correct. Also, I didn't read the article.

EDIT TO ADD:

By the way, even IF Nintendo went bankrupt, the company might live on forever. One of the last things an administrator would sell off to settle debts is the company IP -- the name "Nintendo" and its trademarks. That name alone is worth billions, and even if some crappy company bought it at a bargain price the name could live on much in the same way Atari is still a thing despite the original company being long gone.

No

* Nintendo has enough money in cash reserves to fail the next two gens in a row and still be fine.

What a dumb article full of lies.

I wish I had as many billions as Nintendo. They sure make heading for bankruptcy look filthy rich..

Pfft no ofcourse not

This is stupid. Nintendo has tonnes of IP's. If a platform fails, they can always convert to a Software Only company, downsize and then release titles on the other platforms. They would probably make more money if they did so as well.

I didn't click through to the crappy article.

Short answer: No.

Nintendo won't go bankrupt if the Switch flops. They have enough money to bankroll several failed consoles. Even the Wii U with as much as it didn't sell still ended up being profitable for Nintendo. Just not as much as they hoped.

They could flop a couple of consoles and still not go bankrupt

If it fails... It won't.... Maybe the Nintendo board will get there heads out of there backsides and listen to what the customers really want.

All they need is to throw the next pokemon game on switch and watch it sell.

they wont go bankrupt, but it will certainly reevaluate their decisions on console hardware. maybe even start to tell miyamoto to piss off with his gimmicks. i respect miyamoto for what hes done for the industry, but lately hes been an insufferable moron that needs to be put in place from time to time. not all games need gimmicks. you and star fox zero can bug off back to gaming 101.

If I was Nintendo I would've never strayed away from the Gamecube console design in my personal opinion. It sold really well and that was a time when they had a lot of publishers and developers making games for that platform. If you look at what Playstation 4 has done they are outselling the competition by a wide margin.

I'm saying this from a personal perspective and if you agree or disagree that's fine. I firmly believe that if Switch fails to meet the target set out to them by Stockholders and Investors by fiscal years end then we will see a massive shakeup happening at Nintendo. I mean studios abandoning Nintendo, Shareholders exiting the market. This is much larger than we think and it all comes down to the new console. Does Switch have what it takes to compete in today's gaming market? This is a questions that will be answered in time. We can't answer this questions.

I will say this to further my point. If the Switch fails which I'm not in anyway indicating that it will but if it does, I think exiting the market completely would be a good idea and selling off assets and focusing on R&D for Advance Technologies that could help lives and improve our way of life in some shape or form.

LOL, I've not even read the article, and I can tell you that Nintendo is not going bankrupt anytime soon. They have enough money in the bank (not in assets, in actual cash) to take a $257 million loss every year until 2052. Not to mention their $6 billion held in premises, equipment and investments. When all of that has run out, we'll be in the year 2075. They’ve got some of the most valuable intellectual property in gaming to sell off before the company goes out of business.

Not even clicking because I know the answer. No. Nintendo has so much money they can lose millions for 30 some years before they need to worry.

It wont flop , just based on that it will bear one of the better handheld device out and able to play a ton of Nintendo game with ease. As for them going bankrupt possible but not happening.

Short Answer: No
Long Answer: NNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOO

"The most boring sentence in the daily newspaper is the last sentence of the editorial, which says 'It is too early to tell whether the new policy will work' or 'The effectiveness of the decision remains to be seen.' If it’s too early to tell, don’t bother us with it, and as for what remains to be seen, everything remains to be seen." -William Zinsser, "On Writing Well"

It's fine to have decent discussions on future things, but so many of these type of opinion pieces always get attention due to their clickbait-y nature. If you admit in your article that it's a "wild imagination" and concede we all cannot, in fact, predict and have seen the future with perfect clarity and results from a product that isn't even out for three more months, why bother?

Stating the obvious on "what if" by saying "but we don't know!" only makes this seem like knowingly-easy cannon fodder for those who wish to see this system fail before it's even had it proper unveiling this Thursday. We know next to nothing in pure facts this close to -hopefully- many actual answers to unknown questions, so can't we simply wait a mere four more days and reassess things after we get our presentation?

Nintendo would go backrupt if they sold off their IPs. Otherwise... no.

The switch will not flop. They are the kings of the portable market and this also allow to play on your tv. This will sell tons if the price is good like 250.

No but it seems all the Nintendo haters are banking on it

I have been a fan of nintendo since the original nes was released. Most of my childhood was dedicated to nintendo including neghbourhood video game competitions and hours spent trying to get the best time.
As a fam of the company for so long i can say i am terribly disappointed with them in the past few years. I even purchased a wii u just to support them, i wasnt a fan of the console... sure there are always a few good titles but nothing that stood out with wow. Then i hear about the nes classic system and think "alright! Maybe Nintendo is going back to its roots remebering why generations fell in love and even after 30 years still want to play the ubit titles from their youth.".. then Nintendo makes them extremly hard to come by and somehow thinks that will make their products more desirable. Nintendo has always felt like they can do what thry want because they have such a dedicated fan base. I am in North America and i am tired of being a groupie to a company that has stopped listening to its fans.
The switch is going to fade sure those still blindly dedicated will still purchase them likr myself with thr Wii U. When they released it Nintendo stocks dropped over 5 points and ye sits portable but so is there 3ds and they release a bew one what seems every 3 months. The development support from 3rd party companies isnt there because long ago Nintendo intentionally made it difficult for third party developers to make games for their consoles.
The specs of the switch in comparison to microsoft and sony consoles are so dofferent developers will not invest the money for a few million consoles sold. Which will take a few years because Nintendo will probably do thr slow release on them like they do with everything else.
I am giving up on them its been a great ride but i cant continue to support a company that does not support its fan base.... they dont even feel the need to show up at e3 anymore and publish those stupid videos. For dedicated gaming fans e3 is a big platform and them deciding to not associate is yet anothet hint about how much they care.
Their focus on animal crosding and things where they can sell more swag is just a turn off that their long time fans generally speaking have no interest in.
You can call me anti Nintendo or call me a turncloak if you wish. The bottom line is Nintendo has failed its long time customer base and if i wanted a portable console id buy an ipad or a 3ds pr many of the other options out there. The most i hope for now is thry make games or lend their licensing to other developers. Knowing Nintendo they wont even have the decency to do that and everything will die with them.
Sure they may survive the switch fiasco but they dont have long and im tired of being part of a burning ship... i have officially jumped off thr boat and am sailing yo thr island of common sense.
Thanks for the years Nintendo

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau