Nintendo President Satoru Iwata Dies at Age 55

[Henry Spencer]

Ah yes, a Polygon article, a source of great wisdom and open mindedness. Nintendo are going to be around for a good while yet.

[Riku Rose]

Serious post?

It is true they have money to waste but it's not limitless.

As a company, they're already losing so much money that they cant afford to have many more flops.

http://www.polygon.com/2014/5/7/5690124 ... ating-loss

Fiscal projections. Capital budgeting. Shareholder investment. Yadda yadda yadda. Unless you like accounts and annual reports and stock markets and banks and all that, the world of corporate finance is really boring. But not today. Check this out for a completely not boring financial fact about Nintendo: Nintendo has £6.7 ($10.5) billion in the bank and, even if making big losses every year, that considerable nest egg would keep the company going until 2052. That's, like, 40 years away.

Here's the exact quote taken from a feature in the latest issue of the UK's Nintendo Gamer magazine: "Buried in reams of financial data is the revelation that Nintendo have 812.8 billion Yen (£6.7/$10.5 billion) in the bank - enough for it to take a 20 billion Yen loss (£163/$257 million) every year until 2052. Then there's almost 469 billion Yen (£3.8/$6.0 billion) held in premises, equipment and investments. When that runs out - we're in the year 2075 by this point - they've got some of the most valuable intellectual property in gaming to sell off before the company goes out of business."

http://www.gamesradar.com/nintendo-doom ... -got-bank/