“When you have a great launch like Mario Kart 8, a single launch can change your momentum fairly quickly. “The name of the game for Nintendo is games,” Moffitt said. Scott Moffitt, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Nintendo believes this will be the strongest holiday for the company is years. Obviously, Amiibo gives people another choice, but it is arriving late to the party.” Amiibo will have very limited impact on Skylanders and Infinity. “As they get better incorporated into games, the Wii U will have greater appeal and will skew younger. “Amiibo is a positive for Wii U hardware, but they are more of a collectible initially than a console-driver,” Pachter said. It could, however, add $200 to $300 million to the company’s annual income. He expects strong sales of Smash Bros and the newly released Skylander-like Amiibo to help drive Nintendo’s fortunes – though it’s unlikely to help sell more consoles. That’s quite a turnaround after a loss of over eight billion yen (about $74.2 million) in the same period last year.” Strong sales of new Wii U and 3DS software helped raise the company to a surprising quarterly profit of 24.2 billion yen (about $224 million) in net income for the three months ending September 2014. “There hasn’t been much good news to report regarding Nintendo’s financial situation since the company’s historic annual loss way back in the 2011 to 2012 period,” Pachter said. The Wedbush Securities video game analysts usually has nothing but doom and gloom predicted for the Big N, but he’s now got some actual kind words. Still, some are bullish about Nintendo’s future, and one of them is rather surprising: Michal Pachter. The Wii U still isn’t selling nearly as well as anyone would like, and if reports are to be believed, Black Friday hasn’t changed that much. Beyond positive stories like the latest Pokémon selling like proverbial hotcakes, and Smash Bros being a critical and commercial darling, there’s not much in the way of good news for Nintendo right now.
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