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An analysis of Nintendo (NTDOY)
Even before the announcement last week of Sony (SNE), it seems almost certain that the business dominant in the generation PlayStation 2 game consoles would give rise to a much fairer for the PS3 generation. This time, Sony face much stiffer competition for both Microsoft (MSFT) and Nintendo (NTDOY).
While the Nintendo name is most closely associated with a platform video game (NES), a renowned company has always been the games rather than the platform. Therein lies the true distinction between Nintendo and its two larger rivals. Nintendo seeks to make good games. Microsoft and Sony seek to control a distribution channel.
Nintendo is the only company among the three console makers that began life as an entertainment company – and it shows. Microsoft is known for software; Sony is known for hardware, and Nintendo is known for games.
U.S. players are familiar with the Nintendo brand, but American investors generally know very little about the company. This is unfortunate because, despite all the attention given to Sony and operations Microsoft's video game, Nintendo is the ultimate pure play video game company.
Nintendo is great. The American Society of game exceeds publishing giant Electronic Arts (ERTS) in sales, earnings and market capitalization. At last count, some argue Nintendo has a larger market cap of EA, because its market capitalization has risen sharply over the past year, while Share Price EA has actually declined. However, there is a much simpler explanation.
Nintendo has a larger market cap of Electronic Arts, because Nintendo (the company) is worth more than EA (the company). The rise in share price of Nintendo may be entirely due to improved investor perceptions of future prospects of the company because of the good press surrounding Nintendo will soon launched the console, the Nintendo Wii.
However, such an increase in the share price of Nintendo was justified by the rather low value, the market was previously placed on Nintendo's business. The same can not be said of Electronic Arts. Even after underperforming the index S & P 500 over the last three years, EA's stock price remains at levels that are almost impossible to justify the use of any form rational thought. So, Nintendo really is the world's largest company of pure game play video.
Nintendo is an interesting company to write about the point of view of investors for several reasons. The company operates in a dynamic industry with excellent long-term prospects. It is more reasonably priced than many public companies in this sector (although this is not saying much). Is a unique business (with a unique past), and it has a clear vision of what it is and what it is not. Clearly, Nintendo of enormous properties intellectual add to its appeal both as a subject of an article and the object of interest of the investor.
Nintendo has been a good steward of its intellectual properties. He was very careful to protect the image of his most beloved. In fact, some say the company has sometimes been too protective of its strongest franchises.
For example, between 1994 and 2002 there was no new Metroid games, despite the popularity of this franchise. The advantage of such a strategy is that when Metroid Prime was released in 2002, he has received extraordinary reviews and sold over a million units. The disadvantage of this approach is obvious. Nintendo effectively surrendered Revenue (certainly more than $ 100 million) that could have been milked from the franchise throughout the latter half of the 1990s.
Nintendo is one the few companies in this position. It is a rare and precious commodity that can benefit from spending some time "in the vault." Nintendo has several properties. For this reason, Nintendo has more in common with companies like Disney (DIS) and Lucasfilm than it does with manufacturers of electronic public.
Nintendo is an entertainment company, not an electronics company. Console sales are inextricably linked, with game sales. Equipment sales represent a large part of total sales of Nintendo hardware sales but do not drive a large part of total sales Nintendo. At Nintendo, the games sell consoles. Of course, the console itself can affect the gaming experience in its role as a platform. For example, the console itself should be a differentiating factor when the gameplay Wii launched later this year. If is a positive or negative, we know not. But the Wii will certainly help to differentiate from Nintendo games from their competitors.
Third party publisher support for the Wii has been of much debate and speculation. Nintendo consoles have experienced less support from third parties and competing consoles, because Nintendo has been less inclined to work with third parties on their terms.
While many publishers are now interested in the release titles for the Wii, there is an obstacle new and substantial success in the third party titles. Games will be designed around the Wii. In the past it was easier for third parties to propose titles for Nintendo's consoles, without targeting that console in particular. Now it will be much harder to do. Wait a few botched attempts from the beginning.
A long, slow decline
Nintendo's position in hardware has been declining for well over a decade now. In fact, the pinnacle of fortune for Nintendo in the console business was the NES itself (launched in 1985). It has been downhill since then. Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) in 1985, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1991, Nintendo 64 (N64) in 1996, and the GameCube in 2001.
Here are the worldwide unit sales of these four systems as of March 31 this year:
NES: 61,900,000
SNES: 49,100,000
N64: 32.9 million
GameCube: 20.9 million
This trend is not enough. To add injury to injury, the number games sold per console had been declining until the GameCube has dramatically reversed this trend.
Here the number of games sold per console for each of four systems:
NES: 8,08 games
SNES: 7.72 games
N64: 6.84 games
GameCube: 9.05 games
GameCube
The number above GameCube is particularly interesting, because sales of GameCube games in the Americas has been extraordinarily strong considering its modest installed base relative to what previous Nintendo consoles had enjoyed.
The GameCube has performed much better in the U.S. that it has elsewhere. The Americas account for 58.37% of global sales unit GameCube while Japan is only 19.14% of global sales. In the Americas, the number of games sold per GameCube is approximately 10, while in Japan it is only 7.
If a difference of 10 games per system 7 games per system may not seem that important, there is a much greater difference in the number of games sold per system between geographic regions than exists with any other Nintendo platforms underway. Accordingly, the Americas account for nearly two out of three games sold for the GameCube.
Nintendo DS
Initially, it seems that the situation is reversed with the Nintendo DS. Japan accounts for more than four in 10 sales of two DS games and the handheld platform itself. However, earlier this year, the ratio of software to hardware sales was still a little higher the Americas than it was in Japan. This applies to all Nintendo platforms, even if the games per platform gap varies from very wide (GameCube) to quite narrow (DS).
Game Boy Advance
Nintendo Game Boy sales have always been pretty impressive. Game Boy Advance, which launched in 2001, has sold over 75 million units and more than 325 million games. This does not include sales of various games of the 20th Boys century (the original launched in 1989) that have sold over 100 million units and 500 million games.
Nintendo Game Boy has results Financial, because he was an artist much more consistent. Taking part in the "console war" is expensive, tedious and risky. The risks are involved from the outset, the rewards come on the back half of the trip. Having the support of regular income from the Game Boy certainly does not bad when you are involved in such an uncertain enterprise launching a new console every half decade or not.
Financial Performance
Considering the industry it operates in, Nintendo has been an excellent performance. The company still turns a profit which is not easy when there are no other divisions to smooth out the bumps caused by the launch of new consoles and essentially launch new products continuously.
After all, who is the biggest difference between the video game company, almost all companies others around. All sales are coming from your "new" products, even if they are variations on the same theme or sequels within an established franchise. The life cycle of each product is unnervingly similar to the life cycle of a fruit fly.
Thus now depends on an adequate work done many times. In general, the places you simply do one smart thing every two decades are better bets.
Conclusion
Apparently, most Japanese players now believe that Nintendo released the Wii on top in this round of console wars. This result is surprising and somewhat disturbing. If the Wii is truly a revolution in doing so, I suppose they are right. But I still think this is Sony's race to lose.
What will the price of a PS3 be in December 2007? Until I know, I can not predict anything other than a much tighter race this time.
What about Nintendo's as an investment? The stock is cheap, if you expect to win the next round of console wars. Otherwise, it is difficult to assess. There are two main issues: the Wii and the handheld games.
I'm not convinced it will be serious competitive threats to Nintendo position in games pocket from high-tech mobile phones that are quickly becoming the Swiss Army Knife of the 21st century. I do not think the three major obstacles controls clumsy, lack of interest from the manufacturer, and a lack of user interest will be easy to overcome. Nintendo is in the best position of any company to take advantage of handheld games in the future. They will face competition, but they will start with the advantage to know what their product is (a machine game).
So if you're comfortable with the position of Nintendo in the handheld games and you really believe in both the company and the Wii, it would be a reasonable long-term investment at this price. However, even given the large amount of cash and securities on the balance sheet compared to Nintendo's market capitalization, this is not a "value" style purchase based on past performance alone. Buying shares at the current price is a bet on a better future.
While I like Nintendo's prospects at the moment, it is generally safer to bet against the revolution. So I would say that Nintendo is a very interesting company that is a price too high to be an investment very interesting.
About the Author
Geoff Gannon writes a daily value investing blog and produces a twice weekly (half hour) value investing podcast at Gannon on Investing.
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I want to buy nintendo 64 !!!!!! my adapter is broken! (If in Meerut or Delhi then excellent)?
pls tell where I can buy nintendo 64 adapter.if I went to his desk and ceell and drivers, so in the form SHLD mch i sell? What is the cost of game tapes in India?
Uh …… Adapter? You mean like an AC cord? Or an A / V cord? Huh? Well, if you want to sell, go to a game store local that sells old vintage video games, a pawn shop, or, if in doubt, eBay. I would charge about $ 10.00 to $ 35.00, depending on the amount of games, condition of the system, and how tight the analog sticks on the controllers.
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