Well if what reggie says is true and the wii-u will be priced pretty high then there stock will take a big fall. But if the announce it for 300 or another affordable price then there stocks should rise a good amount and give you more money if you invest in nintendo. I agree though that if they price the wii u really high then i don't think the wii u stands a chance.

PCs aren't in danger and they will still grow, and MS business on them will grow too. But PC is becoming a smaller part of the whole IT market, so the only risk for MS is of losing power, it will remain the near-monopolist or at least leader of a big and growing market, but that is becoming less important compared to the whole IT market. Office is at risk more than Windows, as MS strategy of bloating it, including its native file formats, to create a strong barrier against user migration to competing SW, also made impossible for it to become a leader in the other growing markets, particularly those in which OS- and SW- agnostic communications are of the essence. And while Office's ubiquity in PC world protects it in the short term, growing interaction and communication between PC world and the other computing and telecommunication wolrds will undermine the proprietary approach that created the Office impenetrable fortress itself. Greed and lust for power pushed MS to implement what once was a weapon and now is a deadly flaw, a genetic self-destruct device, in Office.

LOL, thanks for the PC thread. Don't worry for me, anyway, I find console wars amusing!

During current times I wouldn't really bet on anything except precious metals and real estate, but I'm not an expert. And here in Italy our new government is trying very hard to make real estate less appealing, so options are even narrower.