bummer.

Stinks for us. Well and them actually.

I Blame the Japanese government.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

I am curious as to why they won't give the NYSE or Nasdaq a try. I'd love to be able to buy their stock w/o an exchange fee.

Well, even on Nasdaq they wouldn't be allowed to say anything.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

So how long will Nintendo have to stay silent? I guess they will have to do their own event afterwards. Of course 3rd parties can still make announcements, which can affect Nintendo's stock. Loopholes FTW.

Bah, and I've been looking forward to GDC for a while now...I guess it's still possible that the trade deal could be done and over with before GDC is over, but that's a pretty slim hope there...

This doesn't stop third parties from talking about Wii games does it?

No it doesn't. Nintendo just can not talk because the stock sale may change who has a majority of the stocks outside of Nintendo. (This is unlikely but it is a precaution made just in case and is applied to all companies that have a mass sale because a change in the majority ownership can change the direction the company goes but Nintenod owns a good percentage of their stock so...) And this is only through the end of the sale. (So sometime mid-March they will be able to talk again.)

Where's the furor of discussion? I keep expecting this thread to explode!!! I can't possibly be the only Nintendo fan demoralized by this can I?

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

I dunno, usually when events like this get hyped for megatons, it leads to disappointment. No chance of that happening now, and if they give us ANYTHING, it'll be a pleasant surprised.

Nintendo probably has something up their sleeves, I doubt they would throw Miyamoto out there without mentioning something exciting, even if it is for an already announced game. Not only that but I do expect some large 3rd party announcements.

This confirms one thing: Nintendo do have MORE STUFF TO REVEAL!

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If they make promises now and get bought out the buyer would be left with consumers expecting things he wasn't planning. Also they could change change their stock value by making promises and run a pump and dump, i.e. make a huge claim that would make everyone think you're going to make big profits, see your share price go up, sell all your shares and let the company crash.

Since Super Smash Brothers Brawl has already been announced, would it still be possible for a new video to come out during this time? I heard there was supposed to be multiple videos of different characters that will be in the game by the time it comes out, and so far we have only seen two. I was at least hoping for a new video or shots for this upcoming. Figured they are working hard on it and only want to give out new information/videos during events like this. Also hoping for new info/videos on Super Paper Mario, but I try not to expect anything at these event.

the reason why a massive amount of stocks are being sold is because the Japanese government invested in Nintendo, they made loads of money off of it and are dis investing simply because they made a certain percentage of profit.

http://www.next-gen.biz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4803&Itemid=2

Did i read that wrong or does that mean the goverment by selling its stocks hurt nintendo after it profited from them? My guess is they realized how much better Sony must have been doing and dropped all their stocks in Nintendo in favor of Sony

I sorta got the impression that the Japanese government was selling the stocks because they changed thier policy on some economic something or rather... I don't know...

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

no its more like this, they didn't want Japanese companies at their time of weakness getting bought by western adversaries so they bought a large portion of their shares, now that Nintendo's stock is booming they can cash in and make heaps. Not anything against Nintendo, its just that they have profited significantly enough to where its a perfect time to divest

If that true, why not wait till after GDC when nintendo show off gameboy128 and drop teh MEGATON! to sell the stock...

Does this also mean that they cannot talk about upcoming channels for the Wii?

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If that true, why not wait till after GDC when nintendo show off gameboy128 and drop teh MEGATON! to sell the stock...

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If Miyamoto just stands up there and looks smug for an hour and winks at us you KNOW the fanbois will get more excited than anything else and the internets will explode... just a little.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com

Miyamoto could come out in his underwear and do this dance and the fanboys would still go crazy.

ESPECIALLY that dance.

~Carmine "Cai" M. Red
Kairon@aol.com