Nintendo Reports Record Low Revenue

With investors only looking to make a quick buck tanking the stock price, now is probably the best chance you'll get to invest in the company (If you have faith in the WiiU, of course)

A reason for this could be that the idea of capitalism (at least, these days) is based on the idea of succesful companies having perpetual growth. Its not enough to get their annual profits at, lets say, 10 million dollars a year. They have to improve uopn that every single year. If its 10 mil this year, its got to be 11 next year, 12 the next year, and so on and so forth. What no one seems to get is that sh*t cannot keep growing forever, because money doesn't f*cking grow on trees. There is a finite amount in the world, and every single company cannot continually keep making more money than it did before. I don't get it, if you are profiting so many millions a year (which means money you get to keep above and beyond the basic cost of materials, labour, etc), isn't that good? Are people really so greedy as to think that "Hey, 5 million dollars ain`t enough, I WANT MORE, DAMNIT!"

That being said, I`m not in the least bit suprised to hear that Nintendo is not doing that well, what with their huge array of stupid ideas in the last few years...

I have very little understanding of the stock market myself, but I find your points slightly ridiculous. First of all, considering most money is issued in paper form, you could say that money does indeed grow on trees. Additionally, governments can generally print however much they want (probably not in the EU though). As far as I know, it is not a matter of having increased earnings so much as doing better or worse than expected that has such a volatile effect on stock prices. Stock prices are directly related to the shareholders perception of the total worth of that company, so clearly if Nintendo is losing lots of money, it would be reasonable to assume it is not worth as much as before. Additionally, company performance really doesn't seem to be a reliable indicator on stock prices, since in the end it is just public perception that determines that.
What I don't understand at all is the stocks relation to the actual business. Lower stock prices only really deflate the wealth of shareholders, so unless the company itself holds an amount of shares and plans on selling them, I don't see a problem (except for the massive losses). Additionally, I really just don't understand stocks. I can see how an IPO can be used to raise money for a company, but after that it seems stocks mostly exist for the sake of themselves. Many companies do not pay dividends, so beyond shareholder rights and the hope that stock prices will increase, I don't really see the point in buying them at all.

Paper grows on trees, not money, would you walk around saying houses grow on trees? just because a material in its production comes from something doesnt mean teh final product does.

As for the article, maybe people finally got tired of playing games that are simply the same thing with a different controller, instead of something like cooking mama on the ds where it really took advantage of the touchscreen, sorry but the massive drop in hardware isnt worth flicking a thing up instead of a regualr thumbstick, especially now where if you really want to do those things, you could get add ons for the real systems.

Considering the fact that Nintendo hasn't published a game worth playing in years, coupled with the release of console after console with silly gimicky controls and features that just don't appeal to the dedicated gamer (the type of person to actually go out and buy games), I'm not at all surprised to see them performing badly.

Console after console of gimmicky controls? Are you just dubbing controller styles you don't like as gimmicks? Cause I don't remember people trashing the N64 or Gamecube controllers for being gimmicks.

I'm counting handhelds as well. Any handheld with a touch screen counts as a gimmick as well as the 3DS with it's headache inducing visual gimmick, the Wii and soon to launch WiiU as well. The last Nintendo console with owning was the N64.

All these years and console companies still havent learned that being the first one out with new technology is only beneficial when you can keep it fresh and innovative. Fail to do it and youll make good profit until someone else does it better. Sony and Xbox done snatched the precious from you Nintendo.