{"id":4878,"date":"2008-08-30T06:56:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T13:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/?post_type=news&#038;p=4878"},"modified":"2013-03-17T16:30:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-17T23:30:20","slug":"nintendo-profit-up-to-%c2%a5650-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/nintendo-profit-up-to-%c2%a5650-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Profit Up to \u00a5650 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6512\" alt=\"Luigi Coins-S\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/Luigi-Coins-S.jpg\" width=\"325\" height=\"294\" \/>AUG. 30, 2008 \u2022 Nintendo Co. Ltd. lifted its profit forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31 from \u00a5530 billion ($5 billion) to \u00a5650 billion ($6.1 billion). The gamemaker sees total sales for the fiscal year to top \u00a52 trillion.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><em>Impact:\u00a0 The profit that Nintendo is now making from its game systems is exceeding its average revenue level over the past 15 years.\u00a0 The interesting thing to note is that Sony&#8217;s game division has rarely topped $1 billion in operating income, even at the height of the PlayStation\/PlayStation 2 success.\u00a0 Nintendo has always been profitable, even when its hardware struggled to find a mass installed base.\u00a0 Now that Nintendo systems are flying off the shelf, Nintendo&#8217;s profits are almost obscene.\u00a0 Meanwhile, under the Sony and Microsoft hardware business model, they struggle to make money even when their systems sell.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUG. 30, 2008 \u2022 Nintendo Co. Ltd. lifted its profit forecast for the fiscal year ending March 31 from \u00a5530 billion ($5 billion) to \u00a5650 billion ($6.1 billion). The gamemaker sees total sales for the fiscal year to top \u00a52 trillion. Impact:\u00a0 The profit that Nintendo is now making from its game systems is exceeding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4878"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6511,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4878\/revisions\/6511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dfcint.com\/dossier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}