Tatsumi Kimishima

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Nintendo President says 3DS future is ‘uncharted territory’ 

From the Q & A Summary at the recent Corporate Management Policy Briefing, Nintendo Co., Ltd. President Tatsumi Kimishima says of Nintendo 3DS that it “continues to sell, so for now we hope consumers will embrace it together with
Nintendo Switch. But as for what transpires in the future, that is uncharted territory.”

Nintendo Co., Ltd. Senior Executive Officer Ko Shiota adds “Regarding [future hardware] development, we have not yet decided which direction to steer towards, but we
have a variety of possibilities under consideration.” 

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Source: nintendo.co.jp
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Nintendo President says they need to increase the profitability of its mobile games

While smart device and IP related income increased to 29.1 billion yen (up 172% on a year-on-year basis) for the current financial year, they pale to the almost 595 billion yen from Nintendo Switch and even the 170 billion yen from 3DS.

Nintendo’s three main goals for the mobile business is to reach the maximum number of consumers with its IP, become a pillar of revenue for Nintendo, and to ‘generate synergy’ with their dedicated video game systems.

In order to become a ‘pillar of revenue’, Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima aims to continue to provide ongoing support for the existing smart-device applications to help achieve this from this little snippet from a Nikkei interview…

Nikkei: How are you looking at the profitability in the business for smartphones?

Kimishima: We’ve published Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and more, but we still haven’t raised them profit-wise. From here on we want to work on various things like upgrading the insides of them.

Many thanks to Kite Stenbuck for the translation. Please quote namecheck Japanese Nintendo if using the above, and yes, that includes you Nintendo Everything.

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Source: nikkei.com
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Nintendo President thinks Switch sales will be able to compare with Wii 

Nikkei recently spoke with Nintendo President Tatsumi Kimishima who told them that the Nintendo Switch exceeded expectations during the holiday period  in Japan, Europe and the US. He also expects sales to exceed 20 million in the next fiscal year due of an increase in software from third parties and broadening the appeal from the likes of Nintendo Labo. Kimishima thinks this broadening of the customer base is the way to beat the 100 million sales of the Wii when asked about whether Switch is expected to do so…

Nikkei: The Wii which was released in 2006 surpassed 100 million total sales. Can Switch be expected to sell more than Wii?

Kimishima: We can compare the numbers in around two years after release. In the first year we’ll have game fans and Nintendo fans buy it. For the second year and beyond, it’s important to create a structure to make released games playable even further. If we can broaden the ways to play and the customer base, I think we’ll be able to compare it with Wii.

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Source: nikkei.com