Nintendo’s latest financial results won’t be published until next week, but Japanese outlet Nikkei has shared some rough information about what we can expect.

Nikkei reports that Nintendo is estimated to post an operating profit of 25 billion yen for the fiscal year ending March 2015. The previous forecast was a profit of 20 billion yen. During the same period last year, Nintendo posted a 46.4 billion yen operating loss.

Nikkei cites a few probable reasons for Nintendo’s growth. Despite Wii U’s struggles – particularly in Japan – the strong performance of games such as Super Smash Bros. and Yo-Kai Watch boosted overall sales. The overseas launch of New 3DS probably helped improve Nintendo’s fortunes, too.

Nintendo previously expected its net sales to come in at 550 billion yen by the end of March, which Nikkei believes will likely hold true. Net profit is estimated at 30 billion yen, but there is a great chance it will be more thanks to a beneficial foreign exchange rate and the cheap yen value. It’s worth mentioning that during the same period last year, Nintendo posted a 23.2 billion yen net loss.

Remember: none of these latest numbers are final.

http://www.nikkei.co..._28042015TJ1000

 

Man claims this game is sold out in Japan retail. It's digital pre orders were confirmed surpassed Mario kart 8 and Smash bros.

I really hope the west it sells very well.

They won't respond to backers as because of this the rewards are all up in the air. They said Some people get a special disc and mine was something physical but dunno if it's this or not.

well, might as well say bye to Sorceror for a few days if not weeks/months.

That's not him.

 

 

 

John Ricciardi ‏@johntv

Goodbye, Earth. It's been real #XenobladeX #GoldenWeek #Skellebration

 

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XCX DLC coming in may for Japan.

Xenoblade Chronicles X, the new role playing game developed by Monolith Soft. launching in just two days in Japan, is already setting out to be one of the more successful games on the Japanese eShop.

Even though the game has yet to be released, Xenoblade Chronicles X has dominated the Wii U Japanese eShop chart for the past week. The game, currently available for pre-order, has sold better than several other successful titles like Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros for Wii U and others.

Xenoblade Chronicles X has received some new screenshots last week. The screenshots, made available on the Japanese Official Website, showcased gameplay sequences, locations, characters, menus and more.

Some time ago it’s also been confirmed that Xenoblade Chronicles X is going to feature paid DLC quests. The news has been confirmed by the game’s Japanese download card.

Xenoblade Chronicles X will launch  this April exclusively on Nintendo Wii U. The North American and European releases are currently scheduled for a generic 2015 release. We will let you know more about the game as well as on its Western release date as soon as possible so stay tuned for all the latest news.

 

Just add Ink Boy/girl to Mario kart give them a special kart and leaves trails of paint behind it.

http://nintendoevery...do-network-ids/

Confirmed NO Wii U release

Only one being emotional is you right now man so chill out and now you are trying to change the subject. Already explained it nothing more to be said and no I don't spend much time here. Gone most the day. Just post in a bunches then head off. I'm chillin man. You pick wierd battles like Splatoon voice chat and compared it to other team based shooters. You say on disc DLC is A ok. You get all upset over something some company did that is no big deal. Now you are heading off topic. Don't like it don't respond. You are free to be wrong as many times as you want. Not my fault yo. Don't take this personally but with a heart ready to blow up at any moment in my face I honestly don't have the time to care about you to do anything to you.

So I'm out. I don't hate you or like you I have no feelings towards someone I don't know and would have to care to do anything to someone. I'm just telling you how it is and you can't accept it. Fine by me. Carry on. Life moves on.

See MS it's not false advertising so yup you are clueless. It's just CD showing the game at it's best but MS just confirming the game is coming to XBO. They are not selling it as the XBO version. MS only crime is having a video they were given.

Keep getting upset all you want doesn't change you are wrong. No skin off my back.

It' s going to keep happening because it's not an issue and once again you don't get it.  Also saying straw man doesn't mean jack squat. It was fact get over it. You keep having issues in the dumbest places. With this and DLC and it makes no sense. So keep being clueless. You just don't get it nor do you want to. 

So whatever that's your problem.

No it's not a matter of disagreement. You are just flat wrong and you don't get it and likely won't.

You know CD projekt likely sent that that footage right? You know everyone does this since the 80's right? And no 360 versions not the same as a PS4 version,Sony batlanly lied but Sony is perfect right?. Also you get that all developers show off the best version of their game? You get that MS was only saying hey this game is also on Xbox right?

Oh you didn't then may I be the first to welcome you to gaming you must be new to this. 80's showed arcade versions of games on the back of NES boxes,Genesis boxes and so forth. This is like you just disovering developers and console makers been lying to you for over 30 years. So again how is MS singled out? They didn't capture the footage. oh hey look Nintendo showed off Aliens Col Marines as Wii U footage..wait what;s this it was pre rendered CGI? OH MY GOLLY! What's this Sony showed off Killzone CGI footage at E3 2006 and said it was in game! OH NOES! WHat's this that Star Wars Kinect demo was staged!? GIMINY WILLIKERS!

What's this SEGA showing arcade version in a magazine ad that isn't Genesis version?! HOLY BANANA BATMAN!

Yeah so get over it. Oh noes Xbox said we have this game and used PC footage...they are the spawn of Satan and should ROT IN HELL! As long as they lock content on the disc for DLC then they are ok huh.

Seriously stop making big deals out of nothing people then having a tissy fit over minor stuff for these kinds of things. Oh hey look Splatoon no voice chat OUTRAAAAAAAAAAGE! Oh hey Star Wars Battlefront has removed everything from the game the originals and is severly gimped..meh no big deal right? Let's Boycott Splatoon like so many claim will and throw money at EA because OMG WTF HYPE BARRTLEFRONTS! lol

Lol seriously man pick your battles with companies that matter. This isn't one. Getting Nintendo to do a unified account system is for example.

Just got home from Japanese Festival. Drum cermonies and tea ceremonies. Many people in Kimonos and dressed as Anime characters and all sorts of stuff. Got a couple things myself.

Yes let's go after MS for something everyone does. Let's totally ignore when Sony was using Xbox 360 footage on their demo booths in 2013 for games. Oh just ignore that green A button Sony says. Let's totally ignore Nintendo using stock Xbox 360 and PS3 screenshots of Darksiders II on their website in 2012. Yup only Microsoft is the bad guy!

I done all that to^

Just out of curiosity, you do have enough space for it to fully dl.

If it is still not working you might try deleting and downloading it again.

Just 450GB of space.

Then you like to be cheated with dirty practices and don't know what you want and have no right to complain about 6 dollar characters. You choose to be selectively self entitled. Can't help you. Goodbye. But you are flat wrong.

DLC is great in idea but many developers treated it badly,some do it well like Dragon Age Origins Awakening. Look at Capcom. They locked DLC on the disc. The game you bought the DLC wa son the physical copy but you had to pay extra to get that content on the disc you already paid for. That was not the exception either. It happened a lot but Capcom did it the worst. Madden 2006 charged you for extra uniforms for teams,something that was always a given in the game to begin with. Thankfully since they dropped that but others do the same. 5-6 bucks for a chracter makes sense tho. A single character is a lot of work and that's just general how fighting games have worked since Street Fighter II. If you don't get that then you don't get how the fighting game scene works. If Mewtwo was on the disc at launch but paid to unlock now then yeah be total BS.

DLC/Expansion packs is meant to be getting more out of the game and expanding on it and that is a great thing. Problem is many times and become the rule not the exception that it's not expanding the game but paying for something that is kinda there already and even getting worse where look at Driveclub. That was a hot mess and took months before it was playable. Same with ACU or Halo MC on XBO ship it now patch it later. Some of these things are day 1 DLC for things that should have been fixed before shipping. DLC is a wonderful thing but often treated badly.

Does anyone have a link to watch the nintendo treehouse because I haven't found it online after I missed it (it was at 4am..).

Scroll up a bit Sorce posted it. Youtube video 2 hours long

I'm seeing some "DLC sucks but it's ok when Nintendo does it." Let's not kid ourselves into thinking that Nintendo has some unique DLC practices when theirs is more like the last-gen option in the image posted by Ryudo.

 

 

How is MK8 DLC like '90s DLC when they have multiple DLC packs at $7.99? As I mentioned above, it's much closer to the last-gen option here. Not to mention SSB is charging $6.5 AUD for a single character...

For 12 bucks you get entirely new tracks and get Half a game. For 12 dollars you get almost 50% more game for a 60 dollar game. So that is cheap.  It's not like a new mission in parts of a game that already exist like say Metal Gear Rising for example. They gave new new missions but in areas of the game that existed on the original game,tho was free but there are games charge 10 bucks for that and it lasted 20 minutes. Mario Kart 8 did not give you a new objective to race on the same tracks. They created almost an entirely new game for an existing one. Take DIablo II for example. It added 4 new acts. New enemies some new assets and made some tweaks to make the game better and MK8 is the same thing.

Mario Kart 8 retroactively added changes like 200cc,online stability,several new characters,cars,tracks and such. Last gen often just took assets already there and gave you a new mode that should have been in the game in the first place. If you are saying all that should have been in Mario Kart 8 in the first place then some people feel entitled when they should not.

A good deal of last gen DLC is a new quest or mission in areas you been before and could have easily been in the game day 1 on disc.