Nintendo Rises After Buying Stake in Web Company Dwango

[OriginalHamster]

Nintendo Co. jumped to the highest since August after buying a stake in Dwango Co., a company that provides content through mobile phones.
The stock rose as much as 5.2 percent to 13,070 yen as of the 11:30 a.m. trading break in Tokyo. Dwango shares surged as much as 21 percent after the video game company bought 612,200 Dwango shares, according to a statement filed with the Tokyo Stock Exchange today.
Nintendo isn’t planning to distribute games through Dwango’s video delivery system Niconico, Nintendo spokesman Yasuhiro Minagawa said. Nintendo currently promotes its games through the system, he said.

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It could sound confusing for most people, but Dwango owns NicoNico video, which is esencialy Japan's Youtube.

Now Nintendo is the 10th top shareholder for Dwango.

 

[Bobbyloujo]

Dang. Wish I had invested in those Nintendo and Dwango.

 

[Gahars]

Considering how volatile and flighty the stock market is, I don't think stuff like this is really worth posting. If we posted every single solitary bump and dip, we'd go from GBAtemp to The Wail Street Journal in no time flat.

 

[calmwaters]

That's awesome. Nintendo is taking strides to increase their profit. Jeez, I wonder if other companies are taking strides to increase their profit.

Dang. Wish I had invested in those Nintendo and Dwango.

Dude, you... you... *sniff sniff* double posted You're still cool, though

 

[Bobbyloujo]

Dude, you... you... *sniff sniff* double posted You're still cool, though

Aw crap. The internet in my dorm glitched out on me and I thought the first one didn't go through.

 

[cdoty]

...buying a stake in Dwango Co., a company that provides content through mobile phones.

In other news, Nintendo discovers users play games on their mobile devices, other than the DS/3DS.

 

[calmwaters]

Aw crap. The internet in my dorm glitched out on me and I thought the first one didn't go through.

Hehe, it happens. I had it happen before and it wasn't fun. Yeah, no shit. I'll stop here before I start rambling.

 

[OriginalHamster]

Considering how volatile and flighty the stock market is, I don't think stuff like this is really worth posting. If we posted every single solitary bump and dip, we'd go from GBAtemp to The Wail Street Journal in no time flat.

The interesting bit was Dwango investment, not the stock bump though.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I think Niconico should be mentioned in the topic title, as that takes it from "noname company" to something almost everyone has heard of.
Anyway, that's cool I guess. Hardly news, but interesting nonetheless.

 

[calmwaters]

I think Niconico should be mentioned in the topic title, as that takes it from "noname company" to something almost everyone has heard of.
Anyway, that's cool I guess. Hardly news, but interesting nonetheless.

I thought you wrote Nicotine; sorry. This's my last spam message in this thread, too.

 

[Gahars]

The interesting bit was Dwango investment, not the stock bump though.

Then the title and text should reflect that. As the topic stands, it's a lot more Wall Street than Dwango Unchained.

(Also, don't forget to link to the original source of this information.)

I think Niconico should be mentioned in the topic title, as that takes it from "noname company" to something almost everyone has heard of.
Anyway, that's cool I guess. Hardly news, but interesting nonetheless.

I think Niconico should be mentioned in the topic title, as that takes it from "noname company" to something almost everyone has heard of.

Niconico

something almost everyone has heard of.

Let's not get ahead of ourselves here...

 

[Hyro-Sama]

So...

Nintendo isn't Nintendoom'd anymore?

 

[The Real Jdbye]

Then the title and text should reflect that. As the topic stands, it's a lot more Wall Street than Dwango Unchained.

(Also, don't forget to link to the original source of this information.)









Let's not get ahead of ourselves here...

That is, people familiar with the internet. It's hard not to have heard about it if you frequent message boards, chat rooms and such.
At least in gaming communities.

 

[grossaffe]

That is, people familiar with the internet. It's hard not to have heard about it if you frequent message boards, chat rooms and such.

Count me in as someone unfamiliar.

 

[Gahars]

That is, people familiar with the internet. It's hard not to have heard about it if you frequent message boards, chat rooms and such.
At least in gaming communities.

And here we see the effects of a closed feedback loop.

Outside of a very small, niche selection of people (aka weebs), most people outside of Japan aren't going to be aware of or care about a Japanese competitor to Youtube; they already have Youtube. In general, people outside of Japan aren't going to be aware of or care about Japanese websites because they're not, you know, Japanese.

If you talk only to people within your niche, then sure, it's going to seem like everyone is in the know. Peek your head out, however, and you'll see that it's just not the case. Hell, even on GBAtemp, a site that's pretty friendly to the Weeb-inclined, I guarantee you most people will not be familiar with QuicoRico SicoChico LicoDico NicoNico. You need a little self-awareness about these sorts of things.

 

[Veho]

And here we see the effects of a closed feedback loop.

Closed positive feedback loop.