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Nintendo’s casual gaming based world domination seems to be coming to an end, in money-making terms at least, with the Japanese gaming giant reporting its first ever loss for the last financial year.
The Mario maker managed to lose around £280m in the year ending March 2012, thanks to a total fall in sales of around 36 per cent.
There are quite a few reasons for the sad turnaround. Wii sales are down, the company’s 3DS was a bit of a launch flop and required a series of massive price cuts to remain in the public eye, plus the world generally running out of money has wreaked havoc with the exchange rates and Nintendo’s yen currency conversions.
Even so, it’s a sad day for Nintendo when it can’t manage to make a profit after so many glory years powered by the DS and Wii phenomenons. [BBC -- Thanks Darrell]
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Hardly surprising as the Wii’s almost 6 years old and the only decent title they’ve put out for it in the past 3-4 years is Skyward Sword. Otherwise they’ve only been making bank on complete crap dance games bought by Euro trash.
It’s all cyclical of course. They’ll be printing cash again once the Wii-U comes out, but that would really depend on whether or not the controller is revolutionary enough for people to want to buy it.
People are bored of the gimmicks and Nintendo’s failure to make them truly relevant to the game-buying public.
Something that always irked me as a Wii owner is how many games there are aimed at children, especially with the price tags involved (I spent about 200 over two years on controllers – the wii motion plus, the nun-chucks, the already exorbitant wands). Simply too much for a whole family to be expected to dish out. Saying that, there are some truly great games for an older audience (Grand Slam Tennis for example) and the motion plus is pretty handy. Without though, your just flicking your wrists lazily with no proper control.
I really hope more gamers get a 3DS. It’s such a lovely platform to use, it deserves some support.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-future-of-mobile-deck-2012-3#-35
Slide 35 is Angry Birds Downloads vs Nintendo DS Sales