Nintendo today released its financial results for the period between April 1, 2009 and December 31, 2009. And after the money stuff was all done with, the company announced some lifetime hardware shipment numbers.
Activision Blizzard are holding a lot of cards and I want to see all of them. They probably won’t show ‘em all during next month’s conference call, but it still promises to be very interesting.
Reporting its full first-half 2009-10 financial results today, Ubisoft stresses its confidence franchise titles like Assassin’s Creed II, while its Wii titles continue to under-perform.
During an earnings Q&A earlier today, Activision spoke a little of their 2010 product line-up. A line-up that you may be stunned to hear includes new Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Spider Man games.
Things are lookin’ up for old Activision Blizzard. The publisher announced today that business is good, better than expected even, resulting in a $US755 million quarter for the company.
Ubisoft announced its sales figures for the first half of the 2009-2010 fiscal year today, indicating a sales decline of more than 50 per cent over the same period last year.
Square Enix amended its consolidated results forecast today, lowering its income projections for the fiscal year, which is now half over. Severance payments to get rid of some Taito employees and the company’s takeover of Eidos were blamed.
At yesterday’s Nintendo Tokyo conference, company president Satoru Iwata was frank, saying this about sluggish Wii sales: “The Wii stalled.”
For the first time in six years, Nintendo is recording its first decline in profit.
