What’s in it for Opera financially with the Nintendo deal?
Published May 10th, 2006 12:50 PM EDT By Daniel GoldmanThe internet is buzzing with the recent announcement of the Nintendo Wii. Of course today Opera announced that the Nintendo Wii would come with the Opera browser.
I was able to dig up a bit more information on the Nintendo-Opera deal.
In January, Opera received an initial payment from Nintendo of 670,000 Euros (around $851,000 U.S. dollars) to cover the engineering work. Opera will receive a royalty fee per unit sold.
Both the Nintendo DS and Nintendo Wii will sell millions. Do the math yourself, and see what’s in it for Opera financially.
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it’s quite hard to do the math with 2 variables missing, isn’t it?
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pat, use your imagination
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Wow! That sounds great
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Awesome! Opera deserves this!
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Hmmm let’s be modest, suppose Opera only got 1$ and Wii was as successful as GameCube (20.6 Million units sold), Opera will make USD 20 Million.
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I think that’s great new for Opera! Making the browser free made me wonder where money would come from. But that Nintendo agreement sure does it all.
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But don’t forget that opera is sold seperatly and not bundled with the systems.
So you just can count the people who buy the operasoftware
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Opera deserves this.
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Cool
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AFAIK only the DS won’t have a browser on it.. so opera will be sold as a cartridge instead.
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yep, opera will be an optional goodie
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I hope that opera uses this money on a *really* aggressive marketing campaign.It needs to reach out to more users.
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has anybody confirmed that opera won’t be preinstalled on the wii?
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I’m pretty sure Opera is pre-installed on the Wii.