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Nintendo Quarterly Profits Down 80%

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the tightening-up dept.

mybrainonfire writes "1UP is reporting that Nintendo had a 78.5% reduction in operating profits for the quarter. 'Speculation from the news service on the reason for the drop makes perfect sense - the GameCube doesn't have enough exclusives, first-party and third-party, and sales of GBA SP and GameCube have been declining.' Time to release more Pokemon games, stat!"

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  1. Re:And people worrying about Nintendo... by bleaknik · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    yup. 'twas flamebait.

    You see. I am now flaming. Ergo, Your comment was flamebait. I suppose I could have been nice, though, and just moved on past your flame, but here I am. Making idle conversation about how clearly your post was flamebait.

    Guess that means I, too, should be modded as flamebait. Yup. I dunno, though. I may be treading water into "troll" section.

    /shrug.

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  2. The DS was probably my last Nintendo ever! by MindPrison · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I am sick and tired of Nintendo blowing customers off.

    I've bought every Nintendo known to man, basically because in the beginning - there was a lot of really good long-term games worth playing. It was "oldschool" gameplay...and it was more entertaining than just the graphics alone

    But Nintendo has a sucky policy...and unfortunately for both us and them...they never changed their old and stuck-up ways of playing things safe. Always making sure there wasn't enough to go-around just to keep customers wanting it more and more....they still do that today, but in todays competitive markets - doing this is suicide.

    I bought the DS when it came out - Mistake!

    Why is it a mistake? Well - ask DS owners like myself. Now my DS is collecting dust.

    Nintendo raped their customers by making a re-release of Mario-64 with some added bonus games (only part worth playing)

    Secondly...they release a bunch of crap games that I wouldn't even buy in a discount store.

    Third...time passes and nothing happens. Nintendo is carefully screening and releasing games according to their old "slow-wait-until-all-crap-is-sold" and "limit-that-country!"

    My next handheld won't be a Nintendo. Thats for sure.

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