Market cap rise doesn't mean more money available. Just that the Market think your company is worth more money if sold.

And it's funny to see ninty fans happy about it when it was caused by the Mobile announcement (that in a way is being 3rd party) when a lot of them were so against this strategy.

You really think that next Nintendo home console will be success like Wii U!?

Nintendo made series of serious mistakes with Wii U, like horribly name for console, very bad and poor marketing, software drought, hardware not compiling for 3rd party, unused gamepad in games by Nintendo himself....Nintendo would need to try really hard to make again that series of serious mistakes.

Nintendo learned their lessons with Wii U, plus their next handheld will have very strong integration with home console and that too will affect on home console sale.

There are two major signs for me that they'll do fine, or even great in the future; one being the fact that they're actually undergoing some rather heavy, and much needed, reform and the other being that they've actually allied themselves with someone who is an expert in a field they're going after. The one major component missing from the equation now is allowing their Western branches much more influence across the board; that's a vital part of remaining relevant and desireable in the Western markets, where they have been seeing the slowest movements lately. I believe this is coming as well, in time.

Nintendo's franchises will fit perfectly on the mobile devices and they do things right, it can become a lasting gold mine. I do wonder what the proponents of the UNITY thread would have to say about it though, since smart devices and the mobile gaming market was described as nothing but a bubble and a fad...

Nintendo is doomed thats why they went with Mobiles and now the stocks raised double because of Mobiles which proved that others are right nintendo is doomed in very near future. If they did not go for Mobiles then for sure they are doomed like most predicted before. There is no place for them in Home console and can stay alive on handhelds only for few more years in future as relevant and then they are done in Both home console and Handhelds. Only way they are can survive is through mobiles, 3rd party or if they found a new gimmick(QOL?) just like Wii to attract casuals.

No, i think it's about 3.5 times less than it was after the Wii launched ($85 billion), though their shares fell quite steeply towards the end of 2008 so the gap was smaller in the latter half of its life. It's approaching double their early-2013 market cap though, which is a good sign ^^

Now Nintendo just need to fulfill the expectations the market currently has of them.

You guys have some strange celebration/good news threads for nintendo.....

Slarvax knows. Merely making joke-y posts about it only perpetuates the issue and people actually forget about the good news which is coming from this thread. 

And it is good news. I'm not sure if it means a whole lot in the grand scheme of things but it's still good news.

EDIT- I see other people have said the same. Slowgamer confirmed. 

Nintendo's troubles in the home console market has less to do with any grave mistakes they have made and more to do with stiff competition.  They made no real mistakes with the SNES, yet it sold less than the NES.  Why? Because the Genesis was also popular and provided good competition.  And aside from the Wii, all of their consoles have declined in sales/interest from its predecessor.  The Wii U will continue that trend, even when compared to the Gamecube, and sell ~20M-21M.

Those Wii U grave mistakes are responsible for projected Wii U LT sale to 15-20m.

Wii U will be worst selling Nintendo home console, and you expect next home console to sell same!?

Like I wrote, Nintendo would need to try really hard to make again that series of serious mistakes and sell next home console bad like Wii U.