No, stock investors follow these analysts and their downgrading of Nintendo from buy to sell does not help Nintendo in the least. Nintendo could buy up stock on the cheap if analysts are telling share holders to sell and tearing the company down. But I believe that is insider trading and highly illegal.
If anything I could see Sony paying the analysts to shoot down Nintendo. Corporate espionage at its best. But Nintendo losing some share holders if not alot of them as well as not getting new investors that hurts Nintendo. Share holders can really do damage if they all actually believed these reports and pushed for iOS.
So no this is not in Nintendo's best interest at all. If it was over whelmingly positive news maybe but they would not purposely sabotauge their share holder support!
-JC7
"In God We Trust - In Games We Play " - Joel Reimer
