{"id":135653,"date":"2026-01-13T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-196160"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:00:00","slug":"nintendos-investors-are-reportedly-spooked-as-stock-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2026\/01\/13\/nintendos-investors-are-reportedly-spooked-as-stock-slides\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s Investors Are Reportedly &#8220;Spooked&#8221; As Stock Slides"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7ecc99f80aabf\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7ecc99f80aabf\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"7ecc99f80aabf\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Switch 2\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7ecc99f80aabf\/switch-2.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/7ecc99f80aabf\/switch-2.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" alt=\"Switch 2\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s share price has been on a downward turn over the last several months, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance\/quote\/7974:TYO?sa=X&amp;sq\">currently sitting at 9,950 yen<\/a> following an all-time high of 14,795 yen in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Fluctuations are inevitable in this business, but according to <a href=\"https:\/\/kantangames.com\/\">Kantan Games<\/a>&#8216; CEO Dr. Serkan Toto, Nintendo&#8217;s investors are &#8220;spooked&#8221; by the prospect of price rises along with the lack of any major first-party titles in 2026 (so far!).<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (via <a href=\"https:\/\/xcancel.com\/serkantoto\/status\/2011080382108913781#m\">XCancel<\/a>), Toto states:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Nintendo stock in Japan is sliding: All-time high of 14,795 yen in August 2025, and closed at 9,950 yen today.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;So -33% in 5 months: Investors are spooked by possible price hikes, lack of 1st-party hits and US\/EU hardware discounts during the holidays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Honestly, we&#8217;re not sure what the heck is going on with that last point. Was anyone really expecting to see a console discount within the first year of sale? Christmas or not, that just seems bonkers to us.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it&#8217;s a noteworthy downturn, but we&#8217;re not worried at the moment. The Switch 2, despite some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2026\/01\/switch-2-sales-reportedly-struggled-over-the-christmas-period\">apparent struggles over the Christmas period<\/a>, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/switch-2-is-officially-the-fastest-selling-nintendo-hardware-ever-in-the-us\">still the fastest-selling console of all time<\/a>. Furthermore, we&#8217;re confident Nintendo will have some more big games up its sleeve for the latter half of 2026. <strong>Pok\u00e9mon Gen 10<\/strong>, anyone?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture\" data-uuid=\"a465ab6d66ea0\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Nintendo Share Price\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a465ab6d66ea0\/nintendo-share-price.large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a465ab6d66ea0\/nintendo-share-price.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"462\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Nintendo Share Price\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\"><span class><\/span> Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/finance\/quote\/7974:TYO?sa=X&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjkg9m56YiSAxX0hf0HHTZJDh0Q3ecFKAN6BAgmEAQ\">Google Finance<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/nintendo-switch-2\/related-articles:196010 @ 1768387774 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Any thoughts on Nintendo&#8217;s current share price? What does Nintendo need to do in 2026 to turn things around? Let us know with a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life Nintendo&#8217;s share price has been on a downward turn over the last several months, currently sitting at 9,950 yen following an all-time high of 14,795 yen in August 2025. Fluctuations are inevitable in this business, but according to Kantan Games&#8216; CEO Dr. Serkan Toto, Nintendo&#8217;s investors are &#8220;spooked&#8221; by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}