RawrrMuffinz (psn: SonnyXmuffinz)

This is what the mother of the time machine does to you when you eat her Makise pudding.

@sonofman
You better make sure you learn your part of Setting Sail, Coming Home,
lest you find yourself alone on the street.

Are those tree trunks attached to his shoulders?

Too bad Harry Flynn isn't going to be returning. He was a lovable jerk. Did anyone else like his character, or am I alone here?

Ha, I get it now.
I originally thought it was "Sand Impact" from reading the description, and I was like "huh?" After hearing the video, "Sound Impact" makes so much more sense.

@Mal F4cti0n
You explained the reason why Nintendo's stock is going down in general, but not the reason it suddenly dropped 5%. It is impossible to suddenly drop to such a degree without some sort of major event. It is not a gradual thing, as you have explained.

The thing is, the 5% drop occurred right after Nintendo announced its Wii U. The 3DS and the Wii have already been out in the markets. The gradual loss in sales for the already existing devices will not make the stock drop so suddenly in the time period that they announced the Wii U. I'm not definitively stating that it's causative here, but there definitely seems to be a strong correlation between the announcement of the Wii U and the 5% drop in Nintendo's stock.

Also, please stop up-voting posts that you all find pleasing, and down-voting posts that you don't. I'm sorry that I don't respond quick enough to reply with my information before I get down-voted. Besides, it's not like I'm vying for Nintendo's fall or anything (because that won't happen anytime soon). I'm just stating what I see.

@xxxsam
This reply also pertains to Faceless Troll's post.

If the graphics chip is stronger than the 360's and PS3's, it will still be more expensive, since the 360's and PS3's price will drop accordingly. Unless they come up with some crazy new method of mass producing them or something.

However, I agree on your next statement. It is true only if Sony and Microsoft come out with Next Gen consoles to respond to the Wii U. I assume that they will, but as of now, the Wii U has the most powerful graphics card of the three consoles.

I'm not mentioning anything about the potential graphics of the games, since things of that matter can be quite unpredictable sometimes. Like how the 360's Xenon was supposed to be stronger than the RSX. They didn't predict just how great the effect of the cell processor would be. But the Wii U will have something from IBM that supposedly uses the same technology as their Watson. Not much else about the processor is known at the moment.

Also, the developers have a huge influence on how a game looks (they are actually the deciding factor). This is shown by how the same game on different systems often look similar in graphics (PC is an exception).

We'll just have to see how everything turns out in the end.

@baby sea tuna
This is actually the reason WHY Nintendo's stock went down.
A great part of Nintendo's consumer market buys the Wii for its affordable price and family friendliness. By incorporating such a powerful graphics processor into their console, they have raised the price of their product, thus alienating a great part of their market.

In other words, the Wii U will not be as successful as the Wii if it does not maintain the trend of affordable pricing. This is why the PS3 and 360, while being graphically superior to the Wii, have not been as successful.

So no, shareholders are still going to sell Nintendo's stock, and the stock value will continue to fall. Unless they make another announcement relating to the Wii U's price, and it actually turns out to be as affordable as the Wii, now is not the time to buy Nintendo stock.

I think it's better if everyone here down-votes me now, because I'm going to be talking about basic logical economics.

It doesn't seem like everyone here knows what this news means, so I will inform you all. A drop in stock value means that shares of Nintendo stock are being sold faster than before. This is a bad thing.

I'll summarize.
From the announcement of the Wii U, smart shareholders have predicted that the value of Nintendo will drop. Now why do they think that is? Here, I'll explain that too. Since the Wii U will require a more costly processor and graphics chip, and since the controller itself is made more expensive by the touchscreen, the whole system's price goes up.

So, why is it a bad thing that the system price will go up?
Well, let's take a look at the market for the Nintendo Wii. Why do they buy the Wii and why is it so successful? A major factor in the Wii's success is its price. The Wii is a relatively cheap system, so parents are less hesitant to buy it for their kids, or maybe for themselves. Therefore, sales of the Wii greatly exceed that of the 360 or PS3.

If any of you are unable to put 1+1=2 together, I'll summarize.
The Wii U will be significantly more expensive because of high graphics. Therefore, Nintendo will lose much of its market.

Now this can all be avoided if Nintendo lowers the cost of the Wii U.
However, doing this would mean that they would also have to lower the Wii U's processing and graphical abilities.

Zero fanboy slant. One hundred percent logic.
One huge post. Don't read it if you don't want to.
Instead, just do what most do:
downvote this post and call me a fanboy.

@uncmoose187
I love how I'm being called a fanboy when I'm stating my predictions.
I'm not putting any fanboy bias here. This is all basic economics.
I'm saying that if the Wii U has more processing and graphics power, that it would be more expensive. Now imagine what that would do to Nintendo's market for the Wii U. (Hint: compare it to the price of the original Wii, and think about why Nintendo was so successful with it)