Taiwanese animation takes on Nintendo revenue report

January 30, 2012 By Rick Marshall

The news that Nintendo is predicting a rare loss in revenue didn’t escape NMA TV, the Taiwanese animation team that has a knack for crafting absurd, animated reports on the world’s headline stories.

This time around, Mario gets the brunt of NMA’s bizarre spin on the news, falling victim to a toppling Gameboy and crying a steady stream of tears as the news team’s “anchors” describe Nintendo’s recent announcement that a loss of 65 billion yen (around $839 million) is expected for the fiscal year. The video also features a scene of businessmen carrying Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and Sony’s PlayStation 3 mercilessly beating an avatar of Nintendo after deflecting the turtle shells he launched at them.

Oh, and we also get to see Mario using a vacuum to suck money out of a bunch of old people while they play the Nintendo Wii, and a Nintendo 3DS user vomiting into a garbage can after the game’s 3D graphics made him ill.

As the report notes, however, things could turn around for Nintendo with the upcoming release of the Wii U, the company’s next-generation console.

Here’s the video in all of its amazingly weird glory:

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jesterking at 9:13am 30th January 2012 erm.... I'm sorry, but the Wii-U is not a next gen console. It's a last gen console. Nintendo is behind... far far behind. My prediction: It will do decent at first. The fan boys will buy it up. But after about a year, they will see profits dwindle again. No one wants gimmicks like the wii-u tablet controller. Nintendo has rehashed it's games more times than any other console. Seriously, how many times does Zelda need to be retold? The wii-U is nothing but another gimmick coming out of Nintendo's labs, and a half bit gimmick at that.
1. Ian Bell at 4:29pm 30th January 2012 The Wii-U is not out yet, but it will have next gen graphics on par with the new Xbox and PS4 supposedly.
  1. jesterking at 6:42am 31st January 2012 Well, the way I look at it... the Wii-U is what the Wii was supposed to be. Or, what it should have been. The Wii-U is to Nintendo what Windows 7 is to Microsoft. The only reason why I even consider this a current/last gen console is, its output is in HD... It does employ the power7 architecture, which is pretty cool, but that's all I see being out there. Maybe I'm just jaded because I think Nintendo is doing a horrible job moving forward. They rely on gimics to sell their products. Oh well... Nintendo most likely will never again be the big player that they were in the 80's/90's...
2. Rick Marshall at 7:08am 31st January 2012 In writing "next-generation," I'm not referring to any specific performance level or set of specs. No matter how you feel about Nintendo and the company's consoles as compared to those of its competitors, the Wii-U is their next-generation console. It's the next generation of gaming tech for Nintendo (both chronologically and tech-wise), and their entry into the next generation of consoles in the market (no matter how it stacks up in the end).Personally, I wish their next generation of gaming console was that massive Gameboy that falls over in the animated video. I would play the heck out of a Gameboy that was the size of an arcade cabinet. ;)
  1. jesterking at 7:42am 31st January 2012 lol fair enough