Although foreshadowed, it’s tough to hold that a once strong Ninty, a company with unshakable profits even during final year’s tellurian mercantile downturn, only recorded the Q1 net loss of ¥25.22 billion ($288 million) compared to a net distinction of ¥42.32 billion during the same 3-month period a year progressing. Revenues forsaken from ¥253.50 billion to ¥188.65 billion. Lower DS moveable gaming machine prices coupled with the clever Yen (86.5 percent of its sales were outward of Japan) helped lift Nintendo into the red. Regardless, Nintendo continues to forecast the full year net distinction of ¥200 billion upon income of ¥1.4 trillion. We’ll see.