GTA5 is what was keeping the stock around 20-21 before EA take-over attempt.

The take over is the reason the stock dropped so much afterwards.

The stock had artificially climbed to 25$ on EA offer , when the takeover didn't happen, it came back to earth, and then the 2008 recession hit.......

Imagine the money making capabilities if you invested in Microsoft during the 80s-90s then around 2000 (when Apple started dominating MP3 market) switch to investing in Apple.  You would make millions.

@Ail. Talk about a compound drop!

I know some folks that made 2800% return on Apple stock. Most of them didn't have much invested in it though...( yes 100$ invested in Apple in mid 2003 is now 2, 900$).

Yeah, there are probably a lot of shareholders back then that wished the TTWO board had accepted the takeover.

Although to be fair EA stock droped a tonn in 2008 too.

So if they had just exchanged their TTWO shares for EA shares and had not sold those EA shares they woudn't have saved much money in the end...

Okay if you guys don't mind I'll be adding some of your links to the main posts (1st page). The ADR basics, the news piece from Seth. As we go I'll add some of the tools you bring to the main page.

What are your expectations of Nintendo stock over the next two years, are you planning on purchasing or selling?

I gotta edit some of my last posts, it seems the stupid cnnmarkets site doesn't cache the data forever and the graphs are gone......

Give me 15 minutes to find a solution.

Edit : all fixed

Great thread!

I'm not sure though if there's a lot of money to be made. I've held Microsoft, Sony, TakeTwo and EA at some point

and none of them really took off. It might just be the very competetive state of the industry and the fact that there's no

clear industry leader. Furthermore, it's really hard to make a LOT of money with videogames. You might have a few surprise hit

but how many failed games are there for every hit? Plus it get more difficult for companies like Activision to surprise

investors with e.g CoD when the stock already prices in the expectation of 25 mio. sold copies.

Nintendo stock has been up mostly because the market as a whole has been up so far in 2012, that's about it.

The market was up 7% in January..

Predicting where Nintendo stock will be in the next two years without a better idea on the Wii U price, the release date for the Xbox720 and the PS4 and their price tag is just a total guesswork at this point........

Personally I don't think the casual will flock the Wii U like they did to the Wii because a lot of them have moved on to facebook or smartphone games and a small percentage of them converted to HD consoles, but that's just me.....