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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 135 points 5 months ago (3 children)

This is not big daddy N loosing a bunch of money, this is a market correction. People purchased shares 2 days ago expecting an announcement and the price has returned to normal

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NTDOY/?guccounter=1

The shares were at 15.56 and are now at 14.81.

It is still up 2% over the past week, 6% over the last 6 months, an 8.5% over the last year, and a whopping 51% over the last 5 years.

[–] rustyfish@lemmy.world 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thanks for the clarification. The headline sounded fishy.

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

They always do. I remember when EA shares dropped by like 3% in a day after an announcement about a game people were like " it's the end of EA". But then you look at the graph beyond a week and it was still up be several percent.

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 5 points 5 months ago

Stocks almost always fall after such an announcement.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

So basically it's not falling because of mixed reaction, it's falling because people cashing in

[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

You could say it is falling because the announcement didn't meet investors expectations but we must never use that as a gauge of success.

[–] False@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Aka "buy the rumor, sell the news"

[–] sevan@lemmy.ca 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Stock "news" is stupid, the Switch 2 announcement has been expected for a year. The only news is that the company confirmed it will launch this year, which was already expected. Real news is when we start hearing what games will be available at launch (or soon after).

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yup. If there even WAS a measurable stock value drop (too lazy to check) it was not because the switch 2 basically had a "this is the 2025 version of a phone. It is slightly different. Buy it" ad.

It was because the next major news will come in April. Which means it ain't launching until May, at the earliest. Which means all the anticipation of a shadow drop of a console (because that would somehow be a thing...) is gone and the artificially increased value of the stock has diminished.

[–] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There was that time Sega suddenly dropped the Saturn into the US market months ahead of schedule. Shot themselves in the foot doing it, too.

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 5 points 5 months ago

Sony them promptly blew off their other foot with the $299 thing.

[–] ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net 11 points 5 months ago

Will someone please think of the out-of-touch investors who do nothing but speculate and play with other people's money?

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly I kinda liked the "chill" announcement. No overhyping themselves only to disappoint. Fans are plenty capable of doing that themselves.

[–] shasta@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Only because it got leaked early, denying them the opportunity to hype anything

[–] callouscomic@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's underwhelming and there are better options, and it'll sell like crazy because people are basic.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo consoles have better exclusives and last longer than the competition.

[–] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'll shit on Nintendo all day for any amount of reasons, but I just played wii sports with my nephews on a wii that I bought before they were born. Find me a working original Xbox 360 I fucking dare you.

[–] Squizzy@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Just the console works is the brag here? Retro consoles are incredibly popular. Xbox might just suck

[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

lol good. Fuck Nintendo

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

sounds like a good time to use my mom's now unused switch and buy a used Mario Maker 2 cartridge. Been watching YouTube videos about it and kinda wanna try.

Ok so I tried to go onto the Facebook website to use Facebook marketplace to get a cartridge but apparently it got hacked somehow because it's my email, but it's not my name and it got banned in October LMAO
Id have to upload photo proof of my face, so guess I'll just keep not using Facebook.

Looks like they're ~30 bucks on eBay though.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why not just emulate and play your games for free?

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I looked into that. I'm wanting to play online levels and there's no way as far as I know to do that with emulation :/
I appreciate the recommendation though :)

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 months ago

No problem.

I'm not sure about Super Mario Maker, but there is online functionality built-in to Yuzu.