Nintendo har i en snak med investorerne fortalt, at det seneste milliontab ikke kom som nogen overraskelse. Således var en af grundende til de mindskede indtægter prisnedsættelsen på Nintendo 3DS, hvilket beskrives som nødvendigt for at sikre en langtidsholdbar fremtid for konsollen.
"As far as the current term, ending in March 2012, is concerned, we have decided that driving the sales of Nintendo 3DS hardware is our main priority, and in a sense, we can say that by doing this, we have sacrificed our profitability for this fiscal year," fortæller Nintendos Satoru Iwata.
Man spår dog en lys fremtid for konsollen:
"During the fiscal year ending March 2013, we are expecting the profitability of Nintendo 3DS hardware to improve significantly. In other words, we are not anticipating a situation where we must expand the hardware by generating a large loss on the sales of the hardware.