Nintendo Market Cap Overtakes Entire Sony Corp. (Pokemon GO!)

[Normchacho]

Soundwave said:

Teeqoz said:

That's already priced into the stock. No reasonable person actually expects Pokemon Go alone to make 20 billion dollars. Pokemon Go was just the catalyst that opened up investors' eyes to Nintendo's potential in mobile. Animal Crossing won't suddenly add another 40 Billion to their market cap.

I think it will, personally though I've always felt Nintendo will be the world's no.1 smartphone app maker/revenue generator if they wanted to be. 

They are going to absolutely kill that market. 

Pokemon Go is just the beginning and even Pokemon Go can be monetized in many more ways. 

This isn't their peak stock price, they could go back to the Wii/DS peak levels at some point in the next couple of years, perhaps higher. 

I think you overestimate the staying power that Go! Is going to have. It just requires too much from its player base for casual players to stick around long term.

 

6 months from now some new big thing will come out and the people that flocked to Pokemon Go! will flock over to that.

 

Plus, Pokemon is easily the Nintendo IP with the best combination of recognition and adaptability to be a major success. I'd actually be very surprised if their next two mobile games combined are as successful as Pokemon Go.