Tag Archives: Handheld game consoles

Nintendo CEO on $1.2B Stock Buyback: ‘Wii U Isn’t In Good Shape

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After another disappointing holiday season and continuing struggles to market its Wii U home video game console, Nintendo plans to buy back approximately 10 million shares, or 7.8% of its outsanding...

Wii U Sales Down 36% Prompting Nintendo Executives to Take Pay Cuts

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Nintendo has released their third quarter fiscal earnings report and the results, as expected, aren’t pretty. Here are the highlights: - An operating loss of $15M over the nine month period ending...

Wii U Sales Down 36% Prompting Nintendo Executives to Take Pay Cuts

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Nintendo has released their third quarter fiscal earnings report and the results, as expected, aren’t pretty. Here are the highlights: - An operating loss of $15M over the nine month period ending...

sluggish Wii U sales causes Nintendo profit to fall

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Nintendo profit falls for first 3 quarters of fiscal year on sluggish Wii U sales TOKYO (AP) — Profit at Nintendo Co. fell 30 percent in the first nine months of the fiscal year as sales of Wii U...

Slow and Painful Death For Sony Playstation Vita Predicted

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We rarely get terribly colorful language in the sometimes staid world of financial analysis, but in the videogame world, that’s why we have Michael Pachter. The Wedbush securities analyst has a...

Next Nintendo Console Rumors

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The Wii U is in trouble. Nintendo failed to come within striking distance of lofty sales projections, third-party developers are few and far between, and even a well-reviewed Mario game. It’s bad...

Why It’s Still Not Game Over For Nintendo

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News remain grim for Nintendo's Wii U video game console, and this has led to renewed speculation over the Japanese company’s future as a hardware manufacturer. The bad news is in the numbers....
    






Dismal Wii U Sales Move Nintendo Closer To ‘Game Over’

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With the successful launches of the Xbox One and the PS4, it’s been easy to forget that the latest console generation started in November of 2012 with a dud. Nintendo’s Wii U launched with what...
    






Why The 3DS Is Killing It And The PS Vita Is Still Struggling

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From perplexing, headache-inducing near-flop to something that Nintendo can now confidently call a “powerhouse,” the 3DS is one of the more impressive video game turnaround stories in recent years....
    






Nintendo Announces Massive 45% Increase In 3DS Games Sales In 2013

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While the Wii U is still the “console who must not be named” in terms of sales at this point, Nintendo is more than happy to boast about its other piece of hardware, the 3DS. The handheld has...