Quote:<TABLE style="MARGIN: 0px 13px 13px" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=499><TBODY><TR><TD class=gy12>After raising its forecast several times, the final results are in for Nintendo and they're very, very good. Sales and profit were way up and are expected to climb again in the new fiscal year. The DS fueled Nintendo's growth as 23 million units were sold. The Wii has sold 5.84 million. More within...
</TD></TR><TR><TD class=gy12>As was expected, after Nintendo raised its forecast for the fourth time, the company today has officially announced record results for the fiscal year ended March 31. Revenues were up 90 percent to 966.5 billion yen and operating profit climbed an incredible 150 percent to 226 billion yen—both record highs for Nintendo.
It should come as no surprise that these fantastic results were largely driven by the Nintendo DS handheld. Nintendo had full-year sales of 23 million units of hardware and 123 million of software. Life-to-date the DS install base worldwide has grown to over 40 million.
Also contributing to Nintendo's bottom line has been the strong start for the Wii. Nintendo said that through March 31, the company has sold through 5.84 million units. It was Nintendo's goal to ship 6 million worldwide by the end of its fiscal year. Along with the nearly 6 million Wiis sold, almost 29 million Wii games have been purchased. Nintendo boasted that the Wii has "taken a step toward becoming a cultural phenomenon, appealing widely to both avid and previously disinterested game-playing audiences."
In the new fiscal year (which started April 1), Nintendo is anticipating sales of another 14 million Wiis, which would bring the install base to nearly 20 million by this time in 2008. The company also expects to sell another 55 million Wii games during that time.
Nintendo doesn't really see its DS slowing down anytime soon, either. For the current fiscal year, the company has forecast sales of 22 million more units and 130 million units in DS software sales.
After posting a record year, the company believes it will have an even better year now. Nintendo is forecasting consolidated sales to increase nearly 18 percent to 1.14 trillion yen and operating profits to increase nearly 20 percent to 270 billion yen.
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Nintendo owns everyone! I really wonder if Sony and Microsoft see these results and wonder if they took a wrong turn?
The developer of the Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos games, that is, not the mostly PC developer Monolith bought by ... erm, Vivendi or something? several years ago. Oh well... I only knew about the latter one by name, so seeing the headline was kind of confusing since IGN just said "Monolith", not "Monolith Soft". Stupid IGN. :)
Hudson released Battle Lode Runner for the VC, a previously Japan-only game. No text to translate in it, but still, great news.
The other two games, though... Gradius III and Wonder Boy in Monster World are true 16-bit classics and games everybody should own (Dragon's Curse from a few weeks ago too, that's a reskinned Monster World game.)...
I've been hearing a lot about this book from lazy people lately.
As far as I can tell, the secret is if you speak well and tell people what they want to hear, you can get a lot of money.
So basically people seem to come up to me (because apparently I seem the sort of person who needs this amazing and completely true information) that the secret to realizing dreams is to wish really hard.
To be more accurate, positive thinking makes dreams come true, and it works, as they often say "100% of the time, no exceptions". I like those numbers, as it makes it so easy to test it. So, I ask how many of their dreams came true. Well fantastic, here's some fun results. After thinking positive, the results aren't always instant, like riches, you may still be in debt for several months, but maybe one day you find like a $20 on the ground or get a raise, and bam, that's PROOF that it was the positive thinking that did it...
Ever wonder if these people are really as open minded as they think they are? I always seem to think farther and more expansively than these people do about their OWN crazy ideas. Here's a fun example. Apparently "proof" comes in the form of an unsourced short story about an unnamed man in some random city. Aside from sounding like something you read in a chain letter about those people who didn't forward it, basically here's the thing. "A man" who was constantly worried about being late for work hit every single red light, but another man who had a much more positive outlook got a green light all the way through. Let's ignore things like the fact that this is totally unsourced and could, when it's just a SINGLE sample, easily be explained by coincidence (apparentely concepts like "mass statistics gathering and proper probability analysis" are beyond these people). What strikes me as completely narrow minded and self absorbed about this story is the complete lack of any consideration for all the OTHER people on the road. I'm not talking about being rude to others for controlling the lights. I mean, am I to understand this ONE guy's positive mindset overrides the mind sets of every single other person on the road at the same time? Why that guy? And what of the other guy? That ONE guy's negative thoughts overrides everyone else's thoughts?
Anyway, I am shocked anyone is even paying any attention to this nonsense. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. Here's a little enlightenment. If you really want to accomplish anything, instead of sitting around wishing for it to drop into your lap, try actually working to achieve said goals. That has a statistically significant chance of success.
As a final aside, I'm sick of the "well it couldn't hurt to try right?" sorts. Yes, it COULD hurt, I'd be living a lie by doing it and depriving myself of full appreciation of the world for what it is. THAT is a harm.
So there's this movie right? So anyway I learned many things from it. Apparently copyright infringment is frowned upon. Also, did you know they put a zip lock on bags of skittles now? Totally caught me off guard. I mean I could stare at that thing for hours.
Finally a well reasoned response with actual STATISTICAL DATA for Jack Thompson's insane rantings from the mainstream media.
How long before Jack sues these guys while decrying them as just "making the problem worse". Because of course, challenging the idea that the problem even exists by pointing to evidence means we just want more dead kids!
Ah funny dancing Mega Man. The song is neat, though it tapers off pretty badly at the end. Still think that other mega video with the other song was funnier...
Posted by: etoven - 23rd April 2007, 4:49 PM - Forum: Ramble City
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Everyone else can fear me.....
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Gues Who's In the Second Pic....
These are 2 photo manipulations I did currently making the ranks at deviant art.com. Remember before you criticize that "art is anything that brings out emotion." ~ devinci
Yes ryan, i now I'm a sick little monkey, you don't have to buy prints! Everyone else loved it!
