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Grampy on 17 January 2009

Looking in what might be a more realistic evaluation from the Tokyo Stock Exchange the figures are a little less frightening

Sony $ 22.9 Billion
Nintendo $ 51.8 Billion

I can't explain the difference but I would tend to accept these figures .Still, it's gotta be seen as a wake-up call for Sony



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Dogs Rule on 17 January 2009

So... maybe you should correct the original post so people don't refer to this in any way.



Grampy on 17 January 2009
kungfusqurrel said:
nintendo as a game company will probably not care about mature gaming anymore, it will cater to my 6 year old nephew for many years to come.

Actually, the average age of Nintendo gamer is higher than the HD consoles whose major market is 16-30 male. I'm 63 myself but maybe I just never grew up enough to think of blowing people away with in the goriest possible manner is the ultimate and only form of entertainment.

 



appolose on 17 January 2009

That ends my exciting moment for the day.



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SmokedHostage on 17 January 2009
Grampy said:
kungfusqurrel said:
nintendo as a game company will probably not care about mature gaming anymore, it will cater to my 6 year old nephew for many years to come.

Actually, the average age of Nintendo gamer is higher than the HD consoles whose major market is 16-30 male. I'm 63 myself but maybe I just never grew up enough to think of blowing people away with in the goriest possible manner is the ultimate and only form of entertainment.

 

 

 That's quite the generalization.



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Grampy on 17 January 2009

No correction, my original post said "According to Pink Sheet" which is a popular and commonly used source of financial information. I didn't write it and if there is any mistake it was on their part not mine.

 



BengaBenga on 17 January 2009
FishyJoe said:
Those values are completely wrong.

Sony has a market cap around $21 billion. Nintendo has a market cap around $45 billion.

The Apple and MS seems about right.

Somebody probably screwed up the Yen calculations.

 

This.

although Forbes has Nintendo at 65 billion.



Dogs Rule on 17 January 2009
Grampy said:

No correction, my original post said "According to Pink Sheet" which is a popular and commonly used source of financial information. I didn't write it and if there is any mistake it was on their part not mine.

 

In this post http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=1682047 I used their own price and shares outstanding figured to prove that there is a mistake. Pinksheet's own figures discredit the "according to Pinksheet" statement. By not changing the post or at least pointing to their share price and outstanding share figures you are only promoting a lie by willfully conceiling the truth.

 



Grampy on 17 January 2009
SmokedHostage said:
Grampy said:
kungfusqurrel said:
nintendo as a game company will probably not care about mature gaming anymore, it will cater to my 6 year old nephew for many years to come.

Actually, the average age of Nintendo gamer is higher than the HD consoles whose major market is 16-30 male. I'm 63 myself but maybe I just never grew up enough to think of blowing people away with in the goriest possible manner is the ultimate and only form of entertainment.

 

 

 That's quite the generalization.

Not really. You have to factor in a huge growth in older gamers of which the vast majority are using the Wii.

"Last year, 26 percent of people over the age of 50 played video games, up from 9 percent in 1999, according to the Entertainment Software Association, a Washington-based trade group. The figure is expected to rise because of the games’ growing popularity with seniors, the association said. "

A 17% increse in the total population over 50 is a huge number of people and they will definately raise the average age of Nintendo users.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aGnwt15mTjJQ&refer=us

 



BengaBenga on 17 January 2009
Dogs Rule said:
Grampy said:

No correction, my original post said "According to Pink Sheet" which is a popular and commonly used source of financial information. I didn't write it and if there is any mistake it was on their part not mine.

 

In this post http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/post.php?id=1682047 I used their own price and shares outstanding figured to prove that there is a mistake. Pinksheet's own figures discredit the "according to Pinksheet" statement. By not changing the post or at least pointing to their share price and outstanding share figures you are only promoting a lie by willfully conceiling the truth.

 

 

It should definitely be changed, but they DO have that error on their site: http://www.pinksheets.com/pink/quote/quote.jsp?symbol=NTDOY#getCompanyInfo