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In the financial world, the equivalent of "Gate" as in "Watergate" is "Shock" as in "Sony Shock" or "Nintendo Shock." Basically, investors learn that a company's earnings outlook isn't as rosy as initially believed, this shocks them, and stocks plummet.

Nikkei coined the latest "Shock" in a story on Sony's falling stock prices today. Sony's stock has been continuing to fall for the past three days, and today it reached its lowest level of the year. Nikkei's headline for this story read "Dragon Quest Shock Causes Decline."

The head of Rakuten Investment Management told the paper that investors may be concerned that the appearance of DQX on Wii and Wii U could lead to Sony's games business losing customers. This concern, combined with problems in the company's television business, and an overall market slowdown due to an appreciating yen and political problems in Europe, have pushed the stock down.

Sony isn't the only company feeling the Dragon Quest Shock. Square Enix's share price has been falling since the announcement. At present, it's down over 10% from yesterday.

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2011/09/06/dq_shock/

I swear this stock stuff is spineless lol

I don't get it, didn't Sqaure say that Dragon Quest would remain a Nintendo exclusive? Why would the investors be shocked with an exclusivity announcement when everyone knew it was happening..... silly shareholders, they still haven't discovered google search.

Dont understand what the stock fall has to do with Dragon Quest - has the last 1 or 2 Dragon Quest titles (since the Journey of the Cursed King) been Nintendo exclusives. Surely the announcement of DQ10 being Nintendo only was expected. Add to that, the series has never been that popular outside of Japan so i dont see why it would have an effect on anything.

Stupid Square Enix - they really love screwing themselves up, dont they?

DQ IX sold over a million outside Japan so it IS moderately big. certainly a more recognizable franchise than 10 years ago. Also i can understand why Stocks fell. Investors hate the wii. LOL jokes aside isn't t it obvious? DQX is going to be an MMO of some sort. Screw that.

At least there is a HD version of DqX coming out though

It could be good time to get Sony stocks - on TGS they will annouce healthy lineup of titles for psv and release day so they should be nice growth.

It's because they know a MMO Dragon Quest is going to get a negative reception with consumers.

eh, i thought every japanese company had their stock fall dramatically this week.
it has nothing to do with Dragon Quest.

As long as DQ X isn't subscription based in NA, I'll buy it.

I don't think it will be MMO, it will be a party based game so you can play single or multiplayer is where I'm looking at since you can complete the game by yourself.