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- Why Nintendo was a Wii Bit Off Forecast
- For the second holiday season in a row, Nintendo has botched forecasted demand for the Wii game system, leaving frustrated potential buyers clutching at -- well, nothing. Is it really this hard this hard to forecast? In a new blog on Harvard Business, Yossi Sheffi...
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Wii beats PS3 in January.(sales of Nintendo Wii, Sony Playstation 3, and Microsoft Xbox)
- By George T. Chronis By George T. Chronis
- Research articles 2007-02-26
- Can Even Microsoft Afford to Buy the Gaming Market?
- This is the day of the big discount: all of Microsoft's Xbox 360 units have officially dropped price by $50, giving the company the cheapest entry point for the would-be gamer. But this smacks of desperation in a whole lot of ways, for example, like this being the second price...
- Blog posts 2008-09-05
- Nintendo faces profits blow as Wii sales slow
- Nintendo yesterday warned that full-year profits would be far below its previous forecast , as it unveiled a new version of its handheld videogame console in an attempt to recapture consumer interest.A lack of "software titles which consistently drove hardware sales" for its Wii home console, the impact of...
- External links 2009-10-29
- Electronic Arts F4Q09 (Qtr End 3/31/09) Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator Operator Instructions And we will take our first question from Heath Terry with FBR Capital Markets. Heath Terry - Friedman Billings Ramsay Great, thank you. I was wondering if you could talk to us about the strategy for embedding Wii motion plus with or packaging...
- Earnings calls 2009-05-05
- PS3, Xbox 360 Price Cuts Drive Sales?Will Nintendo Cave And Slash Wii Pricing, Too?
- Back-to-back $100 price drops from Sony and Microsoft for the PS3 and Xbox, respectively, pumped up sales of both consoles in just over a week. Sony (NYSE: SNE) sold just over 75,900 PS3s—more than double the number of units it sold the previous week—and up 16 percent vs....
- External links 2009-09-04
- Media Roundup: Wii Sales Up, WaPo CEO Lands at Facebook, and More
- Five months after merger, CBS and CNET trim staff -- After purchasing CNET for $1.8 billion in July, CBS (this blog's parent company) has cut roughly 275 employees from a variety of media properties including last.fm, GameSpot, CBSNews.com and CBSSports.com. TechCrunch has the exact memo sent to employees. [Source: TechCrunch]...
- Blog posts 2008-12-12
- Nintento cuts price of Wii for the first time
- Nintendo on Thursday announced the first price cut for its Wii games console following declining sales and price competition from Microsoft and Sony.The Japanese company said the price of the Wii would drop $50, or 20 per cent, to $199.99 in the US on Sunday. Its price is also...
- External links 2009-09-23
- Bleak Black Friday
- Reports on Black Friday sales have largely agreed on some basics. But the more you dig into the numbers, the more obvious it is that we're seeing some particularly ugly business conditions, because one figure out of context doesn't tell you everything you need to know. by Erik Sherman
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
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- How Will Nintendo Bounce Back?
- Posted by: Kenji Hall on October 29 After Nintendo announced weaker-than-expected second-quarter earnings and lowered its full-year forecasts, attention now shifts to the company's press conference in Tokyo on Friday. All of the video game maker's bigwigs—President Satoru Iwata, gaming chief Shigeru Miyamoto—will be there. What might Nintendo do? One...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Nintendo profits have halved
- Nintendo's profits have fallen for the first time in years, with interim net profit cut by more than half to to ¥69.49 billion (about £465million), from ¥144.83 billion this time last year. There are a number of ways to look at or spin this. On the one hand,...
- News items 2009-10-29
- Video Game Sales Took Another Hit in July, Report Says
- Sales of the Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360 and Nintendo Wii consoles all saw steep declines for the month of July, NPD Group reports. Industry sales overall dropped 24 percent compared with the same period in 2008, to $848 million, according to NPD Group.Long touted as one of the...
- News items 2009-08-15
- Nintendo Wii: Facing the Inevitable
- Bruce Everiss submits: /strong For two years now analysts have been predicting the imminent demise of the Wii. They have become a bit quiet recently as it chalks up ever more amazing sales success. Yet there are a few reasons why what we are seeing now is the end of...
- External links 2008-12-15
- PlayStation 3 Price Cut Should Spur Sales, Analyst Says
- An analyst with The NPD Group says Sony's price reduction on the PlayStation 3 (PS3) gaming console should boost flagging sales, though the industry continues to suffer sales losses month over month.Sony finally announced a price cut on its expensive game console, the PlayStation 3, this week, cutting the price...
- News items 2009-08-22
- Wii boosts UK games sales, music resilient
- By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - British retailers sold a record combined number of DVDs, games and music in 2008 despite the economic gloom, boosted by the popularity of Nintendo's Wii and single downloads, trade bodies said on Wednesday. The Entertainment Retailers Association ERA said its members sold more DVDs,...
- News items 2009-08-07
- UPS Delivering First Shipment of Nintendo's New Wii to Atlanta-Area Best Buy
- ATLANTA -- One of the most anticipated video game systems of the 2006 holiday season will be delivered across the nation this week in advance of sales that begin on Sunday, Nov. 19. But the Nintendo Wii units won't be delivered by the man in the red suit. Instead, they...
- Research articles 2006-11-14
- Nintendo Raises Forecast for Fiscal Year
- Seth Gilbert submits: It’s the “back to school” shopping season, not the holiday period, but Nintendo’s (NTDOY.PK) seen enough. With a slightly stronger dollar improving exchange rates and continuously impressive demand for both the Wii and DS not to mention software, the Kyoto based game company upgraded their annual...
- External links 2008-09-01
- Duplium - Leading DVD/CD Duplication Replication Manufacturer - Expands Nintendo Packaging Capacity
- DALLAS -- Ryan Anderson, Director of North American Sales for Duplium Corporation, announced yesterday that the leading CD/DVD replication and duplication manufacturer, has increased its Nintendo packaging capabilities. "Duplium Corporation has always had large volume packaging capabilities. We cut our teeth in the software and computer hardware packaging business,...
- Research articles 2008-10-14
- Has the Economy Finally Caught Up with Nintendo?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Nintendo released its third quarter earnings last week PDF file. Unit sales over the holiday period were great but having to convert overseas purchases from foreign currency to yen wasn’t. Profits took a hit. It was all largely as expected. Same as the last quarter, mostly....
- External links 2009-02-01
- THQ Inc. F4Q06 (Year ended Mar 31, 2006) Earnings Conference Call Transcript (THQI)
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from Tony Gikas of Piper Jaffray, please proceed. Tony Gikas - Piper Jaffray Good morning, guys. Brian Farrell Good morning, Tony. Tony Gikas - Piper Jaffray A couple questions. Q1 looks a little light...
- Earnings calls 2006-05-05
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