Topic: Nintendo Stock Down After 3DS Event

[Discostew]

Considering past announcements. The Wii U ended up lowing Nintendo stock, but guess what? So did the announcement of the Wii, which in turn made Nintendo a ton of money in the long run. The small 5% drop now is insignificant.

[Stogi]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Nintendo handhelds will always do fine because of children. Children do not need cellphones and thus will not have the "casual market's answer" to handheld gaming.

Ipads, iphones, android....all of that is either too expensive or simply too sophisticated to warrant a child owning one.

[xcwarrior]

STocks do not equal sales. See what happens when the sales figures for these games come out.

Or better yet, see if the stocks go up when they finally say some of these games are coming to the US

[ThePerm]

theres a cell phone bubble about to pop, and 3ds will still be around after it.

[broodwars]

theres a cell phone bubble about to pop, and 3ds will still be around after it.

I get the feeling a large part of this bubble, though, is the global economic recession.  Less money to spend on games means people naturally look for the lowest priced games available, and right now that is definitely mobile games.  Given that the recession does not seem to be getting any better (in fact, in many ways it may be getting worse), I wouldn't expect that bubble to burst for probably 5-10 years.  Whether it is a success or a relative failure, the 3DS will be retired by that point.

[ThePerm]

also, people are going to start buying 800 dollar mobile devices less because they can't

[Ceric]

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Nintendo handhelds will always do fine because of children. Children do not need cellphones and thus will not have the "casual market's answer" to handheld gaming.

Ipads, iphones, android....all of that is either too expensive or simply too sophisticated to warrant a child owning one.

I know a lot of adults that they are to sophisticated for as well.

[Chozo Ghost]

theres a cell phone bubble about to pop, and 3ds will still be around after it.

I get the feeling a large part of this bubble, though, is the global economic recession.  Less money to spend on games means people naturally look for the lowest priced games available, and right now that is definitely mobile games.  Given that the recession does not seem to be getting any better (in fact, in many ways it may be getting worse), I wouldn't expect that bubble to burst for probably 5-10 years.  Whether it is a success or a relative failure, the 3DS will be retired by that point.

In about 2 months the DS will be 7 years old, and I bet it has another 2-3 or more years of life left in it. So why couldn't the 3DS still be around 5-10 years from now?