Nintendo Reverses Into Quarterly Profit on Yen, Sales Growth

The loss of Iwata has raised questions about Nintendo’s future as it faces stiff competition from Sony and Microsoft in console sales, and as the trio battle the trend toward cheap – or sometimes free – downloadable games for smartphones and other mobile devices.

Already this year we’ve seen numerous rumors about the Nintendo NX, from the possibility of it being a hybrid machine with a portable aspect, to it running Android as the main operating system. What the company referred to as a “Nintendo-like solution” could be Alternate/Virtual reality, which the site claims could hit $150 billion by 2020.

Nintendo recently disavowed VR as “not fun”.

In summation, Digi-Captial believes the NX will be a less powerful system than either PS4 or Xbox One, but will be optimised for VR without Nintendo investing in dedicated wearable teach like Project Morpheus or HoloLens. “Edition”. It said it sold 1.62 million copies of new shooting game Splatoon for the Wii U console. Finally, the NX could be equal to or less powerful than Xbox One and PS4, again going along with Nintnedo’s recent console strategy. Instead the VR solution will be powered by smartphones and harness the DeNA partnership to its fullest potential. They also suspect that the social VR-based NX could utilize smart devices as “non-gamer friendly” controllers, therefore reducing the overall cost of admission.

The rest of the blog further explores Nintendo’s past experiences as basis for the argument.

It is worth noting though that this could all just be speculation on Digi-Capital’s part, but the site is certainly in the know when it comes similar industry happenings and could be basing this report on concrete details that they’re not able to share bluntly.