Building a near 1B$ building to hire even more people and expand their teams. Raising everyone's salaries by 10%. Meanwhile their stock lost half it's value over the last 9 months.
Nintendo is built different. When things look bleaker, they just commit more. Very unique.
That was a 10/10 Nintendo Direct. I like how they spaced out each Xenoblade upgrade, finally going to dive in.
Also, new Final Fantasy 👀. And Zelda in 2026!
Mat Piscatella shared how much Switch 2 is outpacing other platforms in the US after nine months:
Wii U: +302%
GameCube: +139%
Xbox 360: +120%
3DS: +96%
Xbox Series: +73%
Xbox One: +61%
PS2: +56%
Switch: +45%
Wii: +34%
PS4: +30%
PS5: +29%
The only system Switch 2 isn't trending higher than currently is the Game Boy Advance.
Source: Circana Retail Tracking Service
Switch 2 is selling significantly better than Switch 1, management already boosted the full-year guide to 19 million from 15 million, and management said on the record in early February that Switch 2 is off to a good start, but Bloomberg says it is under management’s expectations. Ridiculous.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander postgame, when asked if he knew he was going to take a stepback three for the game winner coming out of the huddle:
"No. I have answers to the test, but I've gotta see the questions first."
If it hasn’t been cancelled, IG Port has lengthy runway of content to animate. I believe the One Piece remake is real. I’m slowly adding on each major dip.
Just took a small position in $3791 IG Port. It’s a holding company that controls Production IG and Studio Wit.
The initial run up in 2024 was due to Studio Wit being selected to work on the remake of One Piece. It’s been two years of mostly silence.