Capcom Almost Gets Gigantic Investment
It sounds like something from a cheesey sitcom. Bond trader UBS AG put in a buy order for some of their stock. In the sitcom a bumbling investment banker places what he thinks is an order for 31 million yen worth of stock (around $315,000 US Dollars). An associate/friend/whomever takes a look over his shoulder and notices that the man accidentally put in an order for 3 trillion yen, or a whopping 31 billion US dollars.
The rest of the episode would be devoted to the bumbling banker’s schemes and plans to infiltrate an office building and alter the records to correct his mistake. Hijinks would follow, leading to an inevitable triumph of the plan, only for someone to inform the bumbling banker that with a few phone calls and a little paperwork you could cancel the bungled order. In the end that’s all they had to do, and Capcom had to cancel the order for the gold plated Street Fighter cabinets, diamond computer mice and silk mouse pads.