"I don't give a toss on sales, predictions, opinions, never have all my life and why should I start now."
By all means carry on doing as such and you will probably never suffer any ill for it. Indeed the same goes for everybody- please do carry on enjoying games. However one should note enjoyment does not necessarily correlate to good sales and more importantly for this it does not necessarily correspond to good investment (companies might have debts, R&D bills, acquisitions, court cases..... all of which worry profits and share prices) which we should not forget is what this guy it paid to advise people on.
I am half inclined to agree with a fair bit of what he says although I would agree with the someone calling him a pundit with all that it might entail (a good chunk of his authority so to speak is dependent upon his name being out there)- going back to the it is about stocks thing let us gaze upon numbers
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2007-2008 (until about Q3 anyway) was rarely below 60. Today it sits at under/around 20. Assuming no dividends 1 share purchased in early 2008 is worth about a third of what it was aka a bad investment. Granted it is fairly similar for many games related companies but Nintendo has demonstrated a bit of a slide where others are doing a bit better and picking late 2007 early 2008 might not have been very fair.
Equally if indeed a good chunk of Nintendo's current profit comes from getting new customers and relying on those newer customers to gain them some profit at a given level (say expecting a conversion rate of something) rather than existing long term ones and that first group(s?) is being distracted by other things such as web games (especially those tied to social networks) and mobile phone type games and similar devices (all areas Nintendo (and possibly most of the existing bigger players) are lacking in) then the future might not be that rosy.
Again carry on enjoying games- this is just some ancillary discussion. Sometimes this sort of stuff is nice to know as you can try to predict where companies might head next or where they would do better to stay away from (at least as far as potential profit is concerned which let us not forget companies are legally obligated to pursue above nearly all else) and the chances of them issuing a new entry in your chosen franchise.
By all means carry on doing as such and you will probably never suffer any ill for it. Indeed the same goes for everybody- please do carry on enjoying games. However one should note enjoyment does not necessarily correlate to good sales and more importantly for this it does not necessarily correspond to good investment (companies might have debts, R&D bills, acquisitions, court cases..... all of which worry profits and share prices) which we should not forget is what this guy it paid to advise people on.
I am half inclined to agree with a fair bit of what he says although I would agree with the someone calling him a pundit with all that it might entail (a good chunk of his authority so to speak is dependent upon his name being out there)- going back to the it is about stocks thing let us gaze upon numbers
2007-2008 (until about Q3 anyway) was rarely below 60. Today it sits at under/around 20. Assuming no dividends 1 share purchased in early 2008 is worth about a third of what it was aka a bad investment. Granted it is fairly similar for many games related companies but Nintendo has demonstrated a bit of a slide where others are doing a bit better and picking late 2007 early 2008 might not have been very fair.
Equally if indeed a good chunk of Nintendo's current profit comes from getting new customers and relying on those newer customers to gain them some profit at a given level (say expecting a conversion rate of something) rather than existing long term ones and that first group(s?) is being distracted by other things such as web games (especially those tied to social networks) and mobile phone type games and similar devices (all areas Nintendo (and possibly most of the existing bigger players) are lacking in) then the future might not be that rosy.
Again carry on enjoying games- this is just some ancillary discussion. Sometimes this sort of stuff is nice to know as you can try to predict where companies might head next or where they would do better to stay away from (at least as far as potential profit is concerned which let us not forget companies are legally obligated to pursue above nearly all else) and the chances of them issuing a new entry in your chosen franchise.
