The entire Japanese market is in the dumper. Just about every major company in Japan is off 25-30% from their highs. It's not like Nintendo is being punished any more or less than other companies, but it still sucks for those of us holding shares. Japan is pretty much in full recession mode and 2004 must weigh heavy on Japanese investors.

You have an interesting definition of "small".

Nice cherry picking, now show us the total net profits for each company by year.

 You know what the main man of investing always says though.  "The Market is built on fear and greed.  Only be fearful when everyone else is greedy, and greedy when everyone else is fearful."

Good advice :)

Buy on the rumor, sell on the news. The holiday season has reported in, and most larger investors that move money about, leave to seek other plays for their money.

Potentially, with Wii Fit and even more so, Brawl doing so well in Japan, the 'rumor' to buy would be that both would do very well in America and Other. Brawl, being just a disc, will bring in better profits for each one sold, than Wii Fit with its accessory most likely not having the same profit margin over it. That is, the cost to produce one more Brawl well

" its not that small, its one of the biggest Japanese companies, and a market leader"

Yes but it has a revenue of ~5billion (4.5b 2006) Just as comparison Sony has 70billion revenue, Microsoft 50b.
It may be a market leader but in a small niche of the market.

 On both topics you are wrong, first off, even during recessions and depressions the entertainment industry has done well in the US, go look at the history of those industries, a cheap system like Wii which can be enjoyed by the whole family will do quite welleven in a downturn.

Also a recession or a depression is sometimes the best time to buy stocks in a strong company, fortunes were made during the depression by those who were smart enough to know when to get into the market