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Nintendo stock hits a 5-year high
- Thread starter maxcriden
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ShockingAlberto
Member
This is good for them.
But there will be an inevitable blowback and that will be not at all good for them.
But there will be an inevitable blowback and that will be not at all good for them.
SinCityAssassin
Member
I'm gonna call it evening out at around 23,000 unless they get extra momentum from their new NES mini sales and animal crossing app.
Yes.
Yes.
ShockingAlberto
Member
Yes.
Aztechnology
Member
Sell in a few more weeks once Pokemon GO has hit all the territories. The stock will fall and normalize in a month or two.
Hopefully the AC and FE games can help weather that. Along with further IP monetization. But yeah, when the fervor for Go lessens, the blowback will be unpleasant.
Sectorseven
Member
I bet the board of executives wish they owned some shares.
James Scott
Banned
I'm not sure Pokemon Go will last that long, but good for them. Hopefully the NX reveal as well as their 4 other mobile games for the year turn out well
Yeah, that
I'm expecting a 40-50% drop once the honeymoon is over and reality sets in that Nintendo isn't earning much at all from this.
but it will be good for me
because fuck I'm completely lost 
I don't know when to enter anymore.
I don't know when to enter anymore.The Pokemon Company is not on the stock market and Nintendo has a big stake in it.
Investors know perfectly what they're doing.
SinCityAssassin
Member
Not at all. The buyback Nintendo made made sure that even as influential as shareholders can be, they can't completely dictate Nintendo's movement away from their philosophy.
Also how well mobile is doing isn't the correct argument for ceasing console development. If the NX flops, that conversation can begin. Right now mobile is their answer to not relying completely in traditional gaming sales.
well, they cant buy shares of TPC anyway
SinCityAssassin
Member
Appropriate your face is nothing, because that statement is inherently nothing considering Nintendo is a co-owner of Pokemon Co. and visibly benefits anyways
Or the vice versa If the nx have a mobile aspect for the console, it can go higher.
They're only getting money from trademarks and copyright for the most part. Maybe 20-30% of the revenue actually reaches them.
That and zelda bow + theme park
1) why are you assuming they do not?
2) Board members and directors cannot buy/sell their stock the same as the average investor due to insider trading laws. Thus in all likelihood they could not take advantage of this spike.
SinCityAssassin
Member
If we assume the momentum is relatively unchanged for months, that's still over 3 or 4 million dollars a month from them doing almost nothing.
TarpitCarnivore
Member
Eh, even the most greedy business person would not be bullish on a complete company shift after just a week of success.
Stocks go up and down but what inevitable blowback are you talking about?
Astral Dog
Member
Yeah, but thats just how things work :/
After all Pokemon GO is just one game.
So where is the money going? The Pokemon Company, which Nintendo has large stakes in, or Niantic, which both Nintendo and The Pokemon Company have large stakes in?
About the amount per year they'd earn from a single big game release. :/
Pokemon Go related profits and stock increases are not the most important thing to Nintendo. The most important thing is that Pokemon is back in the public conscience in a big way. Nintendo has a huge opportunity.
At this point I assume they're going to blow it, but hey, you never know.
Without putting up much in the way of development capital, i.e. a massive ROI.
Spyder_Monkey
Banned
I know just as much about stocks as you do but I'm going to out on a limb and say they're making much more than that.
Nevermind that Nintendo is heavily involved in Pokemon Go
Not with the NX announcement and launch coming soon. The Zelda E3 conference and Pokemon GO were just the beginning.
Iwata laid out this foundation years ago and we're already seeing it come to fruiation.
Sectorseven
Member
In the shareholder meeting they were shown to have paltry amounts like 200, some even held zero.
Aztechnology
Member
No, the dedicated home console/PC market is largely non affected by this because there's demand coming from both audiences.
Mobile games as they continue to grow and more players join the mix will only become better with time too. It will also cost more money to do mobile in the future because there will be stiffer competition which means your game has to be better and more feature complete to stand out. So yea were seeing a slightly shift towards mobile to establish it, maybe some extra resources will be focused there for a relatively small period of time because it's a prime market for returns... however, the markets are mostly seperate from each other. There's money on the table in both sectors and as long as there is demand there will be someone to make a product to fill that demand. The issue is that if gamers aren't more picky about the quality and content of the products we're getting (especially mobile) it could have an effect that carries over.
Principate
Saint Titanfall
30% apple/Google, 40% ish Niantic and the rest of the partners
Do you have sources for this or is this just the App Store and Play Store's normal cut? Also what is the total stake, including the relevant percent of the Pokemon Company's stock, of Nintendo in Niantic?
doubt it
frankie_baby
Member
You probably forgot a zero
You must have not seen a huge crowd of people playing Go yet. Sun & Moon will without a doubt see a huge sales boost over ORAS/XY.
How big that boost is is entirely up to Nintendo. They need amiibo Pokémon cards that link with Go/SM ASAP.
The boost to brand awareness alone is incredible. With a good market campaign (+ smart connection to Go) Sun/Moon are bound to make some waves this holiday season.