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NEWS: 4Kids Posts 3rd Quarter Results

Abarenbo Shogun wrote:

Keonyn wrote: Hope they start to get the idea that they won't make money by alienating their market. I'm betting that if they continue this trend, they might throw in the towel and come to us Otaku as a last resort.

I really... really.. really really really..... doubt that

With 4Kids sales going down only one conclusion comes to my mind. That conclusion is that they will try to find another popular anime that they can maret/butcher. In a way having their sales go down might not be a good thing.

However I can think of one good thing that could come out of it. 4Kids merges with another anime distributer company and that prevents them from butchering less anime.

Thats what I think might come out of it.

- IchigoK90

...if you don't you're only fooling yourself U_U *glares at certain 4Kids defenders from numerous boards including this one*

Don't you just love it when someone you hate fails at what they do?

They just aren't doing as well as last year. For a company like 4Kids, it's pretty much hit & miss till you find a new cash cow....

For 4Kids to actually fail, they'd have to start, you know, losing money.... lot's of it.

-t

Here's the thing: 4Kids has 2 "big" series. Guess what? They have 5 more that have a lot of potential. What do they do? They stick them in the WORST POSSIBLE place to make a hit out of them. The only show that they were actually smart enough to NOT premiere on 4Kids TV was Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, which was already pretty much a given success.

Various sales reports have indicated that the uncut DVDs have actually outsold their corresponding edited DVDs. 4Kids themselves have said that the uncuts did good. Many times. Yet they canceled them in favor of the lesser product. They've said that the reason was money. If they say uncuts aren't profitable, then wouldn't it be logical to assume that the edited counterparts aren't either? So why are they still producing them? Does this sound like a smart company to you?

4Kids has had many shows that have made up for their declining Yu-Gi-Oh! sales. Shaman King? Winx Club? One Piece? TMNT? Sonic X? Why isn't 4Kids DOING anything with those shows? Why are they so intent on driving Yu-Gi-Oh!, which is for all intents and purposes a done deal, into the ground, not even giving their other properties a second glance? If they're not going to do anything with them, why pick them up in the first place? Why did they take one of the top-rated shows in Japan and make it a complete disaster here? Does this sound like a smart company to you?

Gaining less is the first step to gaining nothing. 4Kids is dying, slowly but surely. I gurantee you that if Nintendo were to switch merchandisers and they lost all ties with the American Kennel Club, they'd be gone in a year.

Actually, I bet they are feeling it. Big profitible companies tend to go into internal panic attacks when they become less profitible, even if they're still very successful by any objective standard, because it might be a harbinger of bad things to come, and even if it isn't, their objective is to grow every quarter, just like any other big company, and not meeting that goal is never a good thing. There's probably a lot of hand-wringing over these numbers over at 4Kids, even though the public will never see any of it.

Look at the movie industry. They're still worth billions of dollars and DVD sales are healthier than ever, yet nearly every single report about movies I've read this year goes to the trouble of pointing out that movie sales are down from last year, and for some reason this constitutes a "slump" despite the fact that the studios are still massivly profitible. Okay, so it's only the SECOND most profitible year in movie history, no big, right? But try telling that to studio executives-I can't count the number of news stories I've read about how the people in charge of studios are getting more and more uneasy and some are even predicting the death of movies as we know them, just because this year was only massivly profitible instead of phenomally profitible.

It seems there's no perspective in the entertainment industry, so I bet 4Kids (also an entertainment company, of course) is having similar panic attacks. It probably doesn't mean the end for them, but at least they'll sweat a little.

I bet 4Kids will think long and hard before liscencing another major property, considering the money pit One Piece has become for them (even if that is mostly their own fault, try to get them to admit that.)