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Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Mario coming to mobile as Nintendo share drop after profits warning?


After a large drop in Nintendo profits partly due to poor Wii U sales the games giant is believed to be considering allowing it's portable games onto mobile following SEGA's lead.

Nintendo have also reduced their sales forecast for Wii U and 3DS Wii U down from 9 million to 2.8 million that's almost a 70% drop! 3DS sales forecast has been dropped from 18 million to 13.5 million.


Yesterday Nintendo shares fell as low as 11,935 yen in Tokyo after they announced that Nintendo expect to make a loss of 35bn yen (£205m - $335m) initially Nintendo expected to make an operating profit of 100bn yen.

We would love to see Zelda, Mario and Donkey Kong on mobile and Nintendo has a massive back catalogue of titles that could be released. The audience that grew up with the early titles are now at an age where playing a Nintendo handheld console is not really an option, but on their mobile...

Let's hope they can return to profit and continue to create great games.

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