在过去的一年里，任天堂首席执行官兼总裁岩田聪一直坚信，公司的营业利润将达到100亿美元¥即使面对令人失望的Wii U销量，2013财年仍有1000亿日元。今天任天堂终于修正了这个估计，现在预测运营亏损为¥350亿美元（3.36亿美元）和¥250亿美元（2.4亿美元），这只能被视为京都电玩巨头的巨大倒退。

利润和销售额的估计总是乐观的

任天堂目前预计本财年Wii U游戏机销量仅为280万台，低于预计的900万台，降幅为69%。虽然该公司无疑会在假日购物季获得一定程度的销售提振，但今年上半年仅成功销售了46万台Wii U系统，因此900万台的数字一度令人怀疑。

任天堂承认，由于“硬件销售未达到预期水平”，它未能在假期销售出预期的软件销量。利润和销售预测总是显得极端乐观，因此修订不会让很多人感到意外。然而，这是否会让这家以保守著称的公司改变战略，目前还远不能预测。

更新：岩田聪已发表声明，对修改后的预测作出进一步解释。

"Wii U sales, on the other hand, showed some progress in the year-end sales season as we released various compelling titles from the summer onwards, launched hardware bundles at affordable price points and also performed a markdown of the hardware in the U.S. and European markets; however, they fell short of our targeted recovery by a large margin. In particular, sales in the U.S. and European markets in which we entered the year-end sales season with a hardware markdown were significantly lower than our original forecasts, with both hardware and software sales experiencing a huge gap from their targets. In addition, we did not assume at the beginning of the fiscal year that we would perform a markdown for the Wii U hardware in the U.S. and European markets. This was also one of the reas*** for lower sales and profit estimates."