Forum - View topicNEWS: Funimation Parent Navarre Reports 3Q Sales Drop
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joelgundam00
 Posts: 153 Location: Western NY |
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Navarre made the announcement, not Funimation. I believe they did this to help boost their stocks and it appears to be working. |
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Scaramanga
Posts: 134 Location: San Diego, CA |
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While I agree it's true that there's rarely a way to know with any certainty that a show will be successful, you generally increase your chances by getting more popular shows. This doesn't seem like rocket science to me. And in fact your use of The Big Windup just pretty much proves that.
The problem with this method is that it's subject to the vagaries of an increasingly unpredictable market. And the only way to combat this would be to license an ungodly amount of shows, most of which are, let's be honest, going to fail. So it's either that or bank on shows that show some promise of popularity (something like Toradora! seems to be a no-brainer based on the critical and fan appreciation,) which will of course mean that less popular but still excellent shows will not be picked up. Luckily, we have other companies like Nozomi who are willing to take a chance on these kinds of shows. |
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kawaiibunny3
 Posts: 534 Location: Houston, Texas |
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but they wont sell well with me :/ ------------ anyway. I think i understand what they're saying here. its like.. if I buy 100 apples for 50cents each. then resell them for 1$ each. and only sell 50 apples (50$ profit). i still made the money back so. next time I'll only buy 50 apples (for the same price). then sell them for 75cents and sell 40 of them (30$ profit) . I'll still have made back the money i spent. but I have less profit this time than the previous time. right? lol. did that make it any easier to understand? 
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bayoab
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*"What's a new guaranteed strong title to tell our investors about?" |
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firedragon54738
 Posts: 3113 Location: wisconsin |
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Well I would of got some of there DVDs but I cant even find anime in any of the stores where I live
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mckg1
 Posts: 287 Location: From Puerto Rico living in Japan |
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ArthurFrDent
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This is increasingly less true... I have 5 stores near me and several have stopped carrying more than their top 100, and the others aren't replacing as often as they used to. THAT seems to no be helping with sales bottom line from funi or Sec23 perspective, even though it's smart from BestBuy's side. Go online if you can... it's not as much fun to browse, but at least you'll find it. And? Even if you don't have credit cards? IFF you can find something at Target.com it is usually fulfilled by Amazon, but they take Target gift cards, that you can pay cash for in your local store... works great if you are a cash person... |
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mckg1
Posts: 287 Location: From Puerto Rico living in Japan |
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Lemoncookies23
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Are you aware of something called the internet? You must be, else you couldn't have told us the above.... |
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Mr Adventure
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Reading between the lines, it looks like Navarre is in pretty good shape actually. Most of their loses seem to stem from restructuring issues (ex: BCI not generating any revenue) and not having enough product to sell do to fewer releases. Basically it looks like Funimation is going to go on a Licensing spree to met demand and increase sales through releases. At least is how I'm reading their current state.
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myc
 Posts: 4 Location: Denver, Colorado USA |
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Perhaps if someone was funding some of the better shows so there would be more than 12 episodes and gone, maybe then we would be more inclined to purchase more DVDs. It is frustrating to get hooked and then realize there is nothing more...
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