“We will be putting out applications that use IP from actual games, so it will be a decent value for the fiscal year ending March 2017.”
☆ NintendObs Event – Nintendo FY3/2016 Q&A.
Question:
Roughly how much will smart device projects contribute of the company’s overall revenue and profit in the fiscal year ending March 2017? Also, from a long-term perspective, how long can we assume it will take before this becomes hundreds of billions of yen business instead of a tens of billions of yen business?
Answer:
Kimishima:
We plan to have released about five titles (including Miitomo) by March 2017, but the next applications will release in the fall, so the latter half of the year will influence our results. In that sense, it is included in the 45 billion yen operating income and the expected 500 billion yen sales results predicted for the fiscal year ending March 2017, but its impact will not be on the level of the majority. However, (as of the second application) we will be putting out applications that use IP from actual games, so it will be a decent value for the fiscal year ending March 2017. In the mid-to-long term, of course we want to make the smart device business a pillar of profit, so hypothetically, if sales of around 500 billion yen continue in the future, the sales would not grow to the scale of hundreds of billions of yen as you just mentioned, but we believe that it will become a big volume in the future. It is still a little early to get into specific numbers at this point in time, so that is all I can say for now.
— Financial Results Briefing for Fiscal Year Ended March 2016
Source: Nintendo JP.
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