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Nintendo’s Profits Jump $300 Million After Tariff Refunds And Strong Software Sales

Nintendo’s Profits Jump $300 Million After Tariff Refunds And Strong Software Sales https://ift.tt/qGf1OJR Back in August 2025, Nintendo increased the price of the original Switch console in accordance with ongoing tariffs, but after the US Supreme Court declared these to be unlawful, it didn't hesitate to claim a refund. With the release of its quarterly earnings (April 1 to June 30) for the current financial year, we now have a clear picture of just how much these refunds helped Nintendo, as it recorded a 52% increase in its operating profits year-on-year, totaling $300 million. It's worth noting that Nintendo didn't reach this figure purely with tariff refunds, as the company says that "solid software sales and the resulting increase in the proportion of software in net sales" also helped. The US tariffs--that Nintendo sued the US government over --were previously recorded as cost of sales, and Nintendo also noted that its gross profit margin increased b...

Netflix's Avatar The Last Airbender Teaser Sounds The Drums Of War

Netflix's Avatar The Last Airbender Teaser Sounds The Drums Of War https://ift.tt/cHoG0FA

Nickelodeon's Avatar: The Last Airbender series was a pivotal point in animation in the early 2000's. Created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko, Avatar was a bridge of American animation styles at the time with classic anime influences. It was one of Nickelodeon's highest-rated and critically-acclaimed shows of all time. Now, Netflix and showrunner Albert Kim (Sleepy Hollow, Nikita) are bringing the adventures of Aang and company their first live-action television series.

The first teaser for the show doesn't show much, but symbols of each of the four different nations with a war drum increasingly getting faster and heavier as the symbols become more in tune with their respective elemental.

The path to get a live-action series was paved several years ago, but it finally went into production back in 2021. The first foray into live-action was the critically panned and globally loathed 2010 film by M. Night Shyamalan, and both DiMartino and Konietzko have reassured fans this adaptation for Netflix won't be anything like that.

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