Is shares falling a couple of dollars supposed to be attention grabbing when Nintendo just made 2.5 billion in the last 9 months in pure profit? Now THAT puts the 115m sony made into perspective....

LOL.  I'm not the one forgetting that a few short quarters later, they have made money, while being able to lower the price of their system.  And the sales are only increasing, as January's NPD has shown, and with better and bigger software on the horizon, sales can only go up, especially with another impending Price drop.  But I'm the one cherry picking?  That's funny.

ouch that has to hurt

I have the feeling that FishyJoe and DMeisterJ are talking about two different things...

"I'm not the one forgetting that a few short quarters later, they have made money, while being able to lower the price of their system. And the sales are only increasing, as January's NPD has shown, and with better and bigger software on the horizon, sales can only go up, especially with another impending Price drop. "

2003 GameCube fans called. They want their internet arguments back.

Oh what the hell am I saying. Nintendo never lost money in the range of $2 billion for the year, even on the GameCube.

That's pretty lame responce DMJ, since the stock price is the basic indicator of how well the company is doing.

It would be like a doctor saying his patient heart beat is dropping and the nurse telling him no he's fine and to stop cherry picking.

 My dad thinks real innovation will occur when a game console will walk around on legs and follow you around... but I keep asking him how that matters to the individual game itself, and he just says "because".

The chosen time frame for comparing stock prices could be considered cherry picking. For example, lets take a look at the returns over the last 3 months:

SNE = -1.35%

NTDOY = -10.53%

You can show any kind of result just by picking any arbitrary time frame.

Except the time frame isn't arbitrary as the original comments were made at a specific time.

And yet, stocks don't mean a whole lot in terms of success of a console - just look at how well Nintendo makes profit, but stocks can still drop. Microsoft makes billions upon billions every year, but their stock doesn't skyrocket every day - it still bombs like everyone else's stock.

I do believe all 3, companies as a whole, made profit last quarter. And yet all of them are tanking, along with the rest of the stock markets. (tanking is too harsh, it's a slow decline.)