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Production values look decent enough, but my God! Nintendo will allow just about any crossover these days...

 

Should be a decent seller in Japan, but I have no interest in P&D's gameplay so... meh.

 

Reminds me of the later GameCube days when they shoved Mario in everything and whored him out to EA.

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Production values look decent enough, but my God! Nintendo will allow just about any crossover these days...

 

Should be a decent seller in Japan, but I have no interest in P&D's gameplay so... meh.

To be fair, Puzzle & Dragons is arguably the biggest video game in Japan right now. It's not like it's been shoved in with random JRPG #24.

 

Look at how Nintendo's stock jumped after the announcement

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Mind you that's probably because people didn't notice the "for Nintendo 3DS" aspect.

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To be fair, Puzzle & Dragons is arguably the biggest video game in Japan right now. It's not like it's been shoved in with random JRPG #24.

 

Look at how Nintendo's stock jumped after the announcement

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Mind you that's probably because people didn't notice the "for Nintendo 3DS" aspect.

 

If there's one thing I like as a lover of facts, evidence, and logic - it's graphs that are absolutely lacking in absolutely any context at all :indeed:

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If there's one thing I like as a lover of facts, evidence, and logic - it's graphs that are absolutely lacking in absolutely any context at all :indeed:

 

To be fair, it was supposedly a 5% boost (I know where the graph comes from on GAF ;) ), so it is actually significant (and hilarious, because we all know what those investors were thinking :laughing:)

 

Still. I know that Nintendo is desperate for money, but this one seems to rub me the wrong way for some reason... I bet that no one from Nintendo is involved like they were with Hyrule Warriors (which turned out surprisingly well!)

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To be fair, it was supposedly a 5% boost (I know where the graph comes from on GAF ;) ), so it is actually significant (and hilarious, because we all know what those investors were thinking :laughing:)

 

Still. I know that Nintendo is desperate for money, but this one seems to rub me the wrong way for some reason... I bet that no one from Nintendo is involved like they were with Hyrule Warriors (which turned out surprisingly well!)

O rly?

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Why assume the worst? This seems quite logical to me and nothing new

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Reminds me of the later GameCube days when they shoved Mario in everything and whored him out to EA.

 

Agreed. That being said, the Wii/DS era did have a fair few crossovers (Mario & Sonic, Boom Street, Mario Sports Mix, Pokemon Conquest etc), but this does feel like the GCN era all over again for crossovers.

 

That being said, so far I'd say that Nintendo have done a much better job this time around than the sort of haphazard approach they took in the GCN era (where they seemed to miss at least as often as they hit), with pretty much everything turning out well this time around so far...

 

So maybe I should give it the benefit of the doubt, even if it does feel like another Mario-in-SSX fiasco...

 

Wasn't that just one Basketball game? I can't recall any other Mario appearance on an EA game.

 

There was also Little Mac in one of the Fight Night games IIRC. That one was really cringe worthy... so very wrong...

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To be fair, it was supposedly a 5% boost (I know where the graph comes from on GAF ;) ), so it is actually significant (and hilarious, because we all know what those investors were thinking :laughing:)

 

Still. I know that Nintendo is desperate for money, but this one seems to rub me the wrong way for some reason... I bet that no one from Nintendo is involved like they were with Hyrule Warriors (which turned out surprisingly well!)

 

The graph is useless. I could draw a squiggly line in paint and say that it means something related to Nintendo's finances. '5%' is also meaningless, stocks fluctuate daily - that's how the market is. Some can move much, MUCH, more than 5% in a day.

 

But for the record, their stock closed out on the 6th at its lowest price in two months(and not much better on the 7th). Literally its lowest close since halloween. Even with general fluctuations it hadn't gone that low in just over two months - you'd expect a jump off that, and of course any jump will be a bigger % if it's from a lower price point.

 

The jump was an arugable 5%(actually a bit more like 6%, it seems) but was during the day's fluctuation, at the close of business today their stock had gone up ~2.5ish% from its open - again, this is from one of its lowest opens in just over two months and with an announcement, a +2.5% close isn't that remarkable really. According to google it was actually +2.28%.

 

Sooooo....to bring it all back round, useless graph or no useless graph - I'd personally say the reference and useless point @Serebii tried to make about stock price is really rather unremarkable. I'm sure any announcement of a new product would have pushed their price up similarly for the day, regardless of the product itself.

 

But y'kno, evidence, facts, logic.

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The graph is useless. I could draw a squiggly line in paint and say that it means something related to Nintendo's finances. '5%' is also meaningless, stocks fluctuate daily - that's how the market is. Some can move much, MUCH, more than 5% in a day.

 

But for the record, their stock closed out on the 6th at its lowest price in two months(and not much better on the 7th). Literally its lowest close since halloween. Even with general fluctuations it hadn't gone that low in just over two months - you'd expect a jump off that, and of course any jump will be a bigger % if it's from a lower price point.

 

The jump was an arugable 5%(actually a bit more like 6%, it seems) but was during the day's fluctuation, at the close of business today their stock had gone up ~2.5ish% from its open - again, this is from one of its lowest opens in just over two months and with an announcement, a +2.5% close isn't that remarkable really. According to google it was actually +2.28%.

 

Sooooo....to bring it all back round, useless graph or no useless graph - I'd personally say the reference and useless point @Serebii tried to make about stock price is really rather unremarkable. I'm sure any announcement of a new product would have pushed their price up similarly for the day, regardless of the product itself.

 

But y'kno, evidence, facts, logic.

Actually new product announcements often cause stock to drop :p

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The graph is useless. I could draw a squiggly line in paint and say that it means something related to Nintendo's finances. '5%' is also meaningless, stocks fluctuate daily - that's how the market is. Some can move much, MUCH, more than 5% in a day.

 

But for the record, their stock closed out on the 6th at its lowest price in two months(and not much better on the 7th). Literally its lowest close since halloween. Even with general fluctuations it hadn't gone that low in just over two months - you'd expect a jump off that, and of course any jump will be a bigger % if it's from a lower price point.

 

The jump was an arugable 5%(actually a bit more like 6%, it seems) but was during the day's fluctuation, at the close of business today their stock had gone up ~2.5ish% from its open - again, this is from one of its lowest opens in just over two months and with an announcement, a +2.5% close isn't that remarkable really. According to google it was actually +2.28%.

 

Sooooo....to bring it all back round, useless graph or no useless graph - I'd personally say the reference and useless point @Serebii tried to make about stock price is really rather unremarkable. I'm sure any announcement of a new product would have pushed their price up similarly for the day, regardless of the product itself.

 

But y'kno, evidence, facts, logic.

 

I know it's not a big jump in the grand scheme of things, but it makes for a decent laugh at least :p

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