[quote name='Deader2818']according to this:
http://aussie-gamer.com/news/ninten...lla/discussion/embed/?vanilla_discussion_id=0
it has sold 1.8 million worldwide in 4 weeks.
According to this:
http://www.vgchartz.com/weekly/41259/Global/
It has sold 1,817,166 through week ending dec 15th (849,068 in the US)
I know people have an opinion on all this and thats fine, but the numbers don't really lie.[/QUOTE]
VG Chartz is extremely unreliable. You can go by their figures if you'd like but no investor believes those numbers. The NPD numbers is the real thing. I've seen people go as far as to claim that their numbers are completely made up.
As for the other link, I'll let you in on a little secret, investors partake in illegal insider's trading CONSTANTLY. Only the big flashy stuff gets caught. If the price is going down in December then you can expect to see some kind of bad news when they do their next cc. It's also important to note that they compare it to the Wii which was constantly sold out and the PS3 which was $600 at launch in the US and $1,000 in the rest of the world. If the PS3 had been $349.99 then it would have been sold out at launch so these comparisons are more along the lines of fanboyism to make owners feel better about their purchases and hiding their heads in the sand rather than admitting it to themselves what's going on.
If you want to see an example of fraud, take it from me, I owned THQ stock. Take a look at the first chart. This is from holiday 2011. The large Wall Street guys found out during the holiday season that the uDraw was a failure and was going to cause THQ to take a 100 million dollar loss.
The stock price dropped from over $2 a share to about 65 cents a share in the middle of January even though there was NO NEWS released and NO INFORMATION about the uDraw failure.
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp...&q=NASDAQ:THQI&&fct=big&ei=g27UUIisKMO50AHjQw
Meanwhile, the regular investors find out about it after the market closes on Feb 2nd. That spike you see on that day represents people buying THQI shares in hopes of good news from the cc (which as mentioned, occurred after the market closed). During that cc they talk about the uDraw failure and you can see the stock tanks the next day.
http://www.google.com/finance?chdnp...&q=NASDAQ:THQI&&fct=big&ei=n2_UUPCTCea50QGHcg
Nintendo's share price collapse could be incidental but these large fund holders are a bunch of criminals that find out insider information early.
[quote name='maximumzero']
It will not be a Dreamcast situation, and that's not up for debate. Sega was essentially bankrupt when the Dreamcast was on the market and they simply couldn't afford to support it. Nintendo has more money than Sega ever did and they'd have to release four or five "flopped" consoles before they got anywhere near to a Dreamcast situation.[/QUOTE]
Nintendo has 14-15 billion in cash and only has 5,000 employees. They're not going anywhere.