Nintendo Vs. Sony Stock In 2006
After a record year for Nintendo, both hardware and software wise, the value of its stock doubled in 2006. The DS has been e best seller all year long, while the Wii was the best selling new console this holiday season, where a reported 3 million were sold in five weeks.
Sony’s stock on the other hand, has had a rollercoaster ride in 2006, ending at the same value as it begun in January. There wasn’t one month without bad news for Sony, from defect laptop batteries, to PS3 production issues, delays, and even more delays.
Chart from MSN Money
January 2nd, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Should have bought some Nintendo stocks a couple years ago
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:13 pm
[...] Sales figures and stock prices are important to any fanboy’s repertoire. For some reason, there’s a strange assumption that higher sales of a system means better games (something that I’d like to disagree with … RIP Dreamcast). However, considering how we’re all invested (mentally) in the i dustry, it’s still fascinating to see how gamer perception reflects upon stocks–and Digital Battle did the research for us. [...]
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:16 pm
I was going to invest in Nintendo, but for some reason I didn’t.
January 2nd, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Next week, I’ll buy $1000 worth of Nintendo shares. Seriously, I was planning to do it this week but didn’t have time.
They’ll sell even more DS and Wii consoles in 2007, the stock might double again. All financial reports I’ve read suggest a rise in both Nintendo and Sony in 2007.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:43 am
One might think, looking at the chart, that Nintendo is worth more than Sony. You’d be wrong, but that’s the point—to present misleading data that’s overly flattering to Nintendo.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:55 am
i think people understand the difference between stock and overall wealth.
January 3rd, 2007 at 12:57 am
This might not show overall wealth, but what it does show is growth. It says that Nintendo is growing and Sony is dying.
January 3rd, 2007 at 1:32 am
Ryan, it’s a percentage growth for 2006. Nintendo doubled, Sony stayed the same.
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:47 am
Well, didn anyone expect other than good shareprices and profits from Nintendo in 2006? If they failed to make money, they gotta be the dumbest businesmen aronud. But they’re not, they made a few billion
January 3rd, 2007 at 2:53 am
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January 3rd, 2007 at 3:42 am
[...] Sales figures and stock prices are important to any fanboy’s repertoire. For some reason, there’s a strange assumption that higher sales of a system means better games (something that I’d like to disagree with … RIP Dreamcast). However, considering how we’re all invested (mentally) in the industry, it’s still fascinating to see how gamer perception reflects upon stocks–and Digital Battle did the research for us. [...]
January 3rd, 2007 at 8:04 am
Hot damn … Nintendo stock is definitely the stock to get. Gotta figure out a way to buy some … now that I am in school and needed to get a laptop plus other things money is not flowing all that freely. Plus there are games that I need to buy for my Wii and upcoming 360 games. My PC needs to be upgraded and of course there is Vista and the PC games coming along after that. Maybe I need to start a website where people can send me a buck or something.
January 3rd, 2007 at 11:13 am
Jim2k & Anuban; I can see why you would want to buy Nintendo stocks now. But if you had bought them two or three years ago, when they were cheap, you could really have earned some money. The really funny thing is, that I actually considered it back then, but I didn’t had the money. Had I just found the money and bought some, I would probably dance the streets like this right now
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January 3rd, 2007 at 11:53 am
I agree that now is not the best time but it is still a good time if I had the money … which I don’t … yet. Anyway there are some other interesting companies that I would likely throw my money into before Nintendo anyway. But for now all of this is a pipe dream as I prepare for my first University classes in over 15 years next week.
January 3rd, 2007 at 4:47 pm
[...] Sales figures and stock prices are important to any fanboy’s repertoire. For some reason, there’s a strange assumption that higher sales of a system means better games (something that I’d like to disagree with … RIP Dreamcast). However, considering how we’re all invested (mentally) in the i dustry, it’s still fascinating to see how gamer perception reflects upon stocks–and Digital Battle did the research for us. [...]
January 4th, 2007 at 12:30 am
It is one of investors’ dilemma. When a particular stock go up there are reasons to buy eg. good company, but also there are reason to sell eg. good price or risk of dissapoint future so on. Vis versa for the stock that go down, eg, reason might be the company is doing bad and you bet on the future that the company will strive to do better which might push the stock price up if they do.
In some sense you can not actually compare Nintendo’s stock with Sony’s stock. Since the two company are actually not the same in term of business and market they presence.
In case of Sony who has average revenue about $70billion a year(Sony is not selling only PS3 but probably other sort of products in every consumer products sector from cell-phone, movie to TV). Sony is indeed a big multinational company with diverse businesses. The risk of bankrupcy is slim and risk of volatile price is also pretty slim.
Nintendo ,on the other hand, probably live on making games. Unlike Sony, Nentendo sole business is making games and nothing else. We have to admit that Nintendo didn’t do well during the last 90s and early 2000s (yes Nintendo 64 and Cube are considered as flops) so the Nintendo’s stock is pretty cheap compare with Sony who PS2 was dominating the market.
That is why Nintendo’s stock is climing and Sony is staying the same.
If consider buying Nintendo stock now, considered the risk that PS3 might jump next year and so on. the risk is yours.
But then I dont recommending Sony stock if you want to make a buck out of it. It never go up since a decade ago and it never go down…..
January 4th, 2007 at 12:51 am
how does one go about buying stock from a company? is there a site or something?
January 4th, 2007 at 3:42 am
Find a decent broker or brokerage house and go through them if you are serious about buying some stock.
January 4th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
“What, the full 3k you made by flipping burgers all summer kaiser? I’m glad you play along the big game that is stockbroking. Another Wallstreet expert, Digitalbattle must have the highest concentration of financial doctors of all the internets it seems!”
Meaning, if I had bought Nintendo shares in 2003 when the price was low, and sold them now, I wouldn’t have earned a penny?
January 4th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Yeah well now it is time to do some fishing and find another good stock that has potential to make you wealthy in three years that is now priced in the realm of affordability. That is the hard part of stock forcasting. Even I am uncertain of where to throw my money and this time I have to be smart about it. I am sick of not being one of the lucky (and smart) ones when it comes to investing. So many people are making millions and to not be one of them is very disappointing at times.
January 4th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Put your money in a firm developing alternative energy. Lets say a company who makes hydrogen cars, or who are about to.
January 4th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Oh you mean like Honda?
January 5th, 2007 at 11:41 am
The only firm I can think of is Ford who spends lots of money developing such cars.
January 5th, 2007 at 12:01 pm
Ford is NO LONGER a company I would even consider … they have slid down to no. 3 now and plus they secretly (or rather tried to keep it a secret until Lou Dobbs put the spotlight on them and some other American companies) are doing big business with our terrorist enemy countries like Syria for example … and there are 40 more American companies doing likewise. This while we are waging a war against terrorism and our President has even refused to sit down and talk to ANY leader in Syria but Ford can’t pass up the chance to make a buck … so for me they can keep their cars and their stock.
January 5th, 2007 at 7:40 pm
Honda sure doesn’t think hydrogen cars are a waste and they pioneered Hybrids … they have a working prototype which is set to go into production and be available pretty soon (next 24 months or less) and the reports on it are very positive. I’m pretty sure those PhD scientists know what they are doing … I remember when Hybrids first came out people said they would fail and now one of the reason Toyota is poised to become the No. 1 car mfg. in the world is due to sales of the Prius.
January 7th, 2007 at 11:51 am
Well i really hate kidtendo, they put the same crap over and over and we people who grow up with them arent no longer kids and we need some God of War kinda game on nintendo system already. this games are boring and patethic.
but i gotta admit this guys are not fools they know they have the biggest fanbase of losers with no life who wanna sound ”internet cool” by saying im gonna buy a wii and sony sucks.
also everything nintendo sells is profitable,so it comes as a no surprise they are getting some good oney out of money.
so that wii actually cost like 50 dollars to make, tweaked game cube with a patethic gimmick.
January 9th, 2007 at 7:45 am
“And honestly, I can’t imagine myself driving on the freeway surrounded by hundreds of small Hindenburgs”
Me neíther. But scientists have already solved that problem by inventing “hydrogen pills” which are even more safe than regular fuel. I saw a scientist waving a lighter under one of those pills without anything happening. And hydrogen cars have existed for years already. So the only problem is to get the manufacturing cocts down on hydrogen, and hydrogen cars, so it can compete against regular fuel. And that will happen eventually.
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January 22nd, 2007 at 3:35 am
Nintendo has done a good job with what they have and I expect them to succeed in more generations to come.