A self-professed “die-hard Nintendo fan” spent ¥5.6 million ($43,212) to purchase stock in the company to attend a shareholder meeting and get a chance to ask Nintendo’s leadership about the future of F-Zero, Baten Kaitos, and other such games that have not seen a new release in decades.
The shareholder, known as “Momiji”, explained that he bought “100 shares at ¥56,430 per share (over $400 per share)” in February after selling his stock in another company.
Momiji was presented a chance to ask Nintendo president Shuntaro Furukawa a question, and he asked if they had considered relaunching older fan favorite games, specifically F-Zero, though Baten Kaitos was also mentioned. Momiji would later profess great love for F-Zero in an interview:
“I have been playing Nintendo games since I was a child. Among them, I can’t get enough of that sense of speed of ‘F-Zero.'”
Furukawa gave a non-committal answer, and expressed appreciation for such undying love:
“It is realistically difficult to develop new titles and remakes, including sequels, for every Nintendo game that people request, but we are very grateful and appreciate the expectations our fans have for our games.”
Nintendo’s managing executive officer Shinya Takahashi gave a more optimistic answer:
“We are always considering how to develop new titles and remakes that can be enjoyed by many players.”
News of a Nintendo enthusiast attending a shareholder meeting and asking about classic games reached the Internet thanks to a Twitter account transcribing the questions and answers from the meeting, and Momiji’s portion also appeared:
Momiji eventually appeared and disclosed how much it cost to ask about F-Zero’s potential return:
Momiji later tweeted a PDF transcript of the meeting, highlighted his portion, and informed his new followers that he mentioned way more games than F-Zero, but they were omitted:
Fair play to him. That’s a good way of making his voice heard.
Not gonna buy 40 k stocks just to ask about f-zero.
Don’t give those greedy fuckers any ideas!
Yeah only that Nintendo stocks aren’t doing too good as of late.
Anon’s wallet took the brunt for all of us. Godspeed to them.
Less money, more disappointment.
You know what they say. Bold and stupidity go hand-in-hand.
Guy should get a Gold Plated Switch for doing this.
everyone is wanting to know whats with fzero
but guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens from here
F-Zero died with that Game Cube game that blatantly cheated against the player. When playing it for the first time I managed to destroy the only opponent in the story mode and that guy would respawn and use unlimited boost to win the race. f♥♥k cheating AIs.
Sorry but you need to get good, hopefully you failed on very hard and not on normal difficulty.
No, I beat it how the game wants to be beaten, but I wanted to beat it by destroying the opponents car and did that. And it just respawned with infinite boost, which is bullshit.
When I destroy the opponents car, I expect it to stay destroyed.
Get good fag
try to beat an AI in a driving game with a Rubber Band mechanic. it is really annoying to deal with. F-zero especially since one simple misplay will wreak you. F-zero being “Dark Souls of driving games” is not an exaggeration.
Dark Souls is a fair game, F-Zero for Game Cube will just cheat. F-Zero for SNES was so much better, simply by not cheating.
And I’m not talking about rubber banding. I don’t mind rubber banding that much. In F-Zero you can tell when the opponent is using boost, since the speed difference is significant. That’s why boost is usually limited to a couple of seconds. So it’s really obvious when someone who is half a minute behind you just suddenly is taking you over and out of sight in another couple seconds and then wins the race with an impossible time.
Nintendo Fanboys are fucking retarded. Why support any of these companies that are holding back gaming. If you want the video game industry to be better than you need to start supporting those that will make gaming free from the gate keepers.
For example support FOSS (Free and Open-Source Software) so we can freely create our content and games without being chained to companies. Linux is the bastion of freedom when it comes operating systems.
Use FOSS social media platforms like Aether instead of Reddit so we are not censored or oppressed
Better than simping, I guess.
I’d argue that Simping for a corporation is worse than Simping for an E-Thot
“easy to sell immediately after the question” to sell to whom? nintendo’s price/earnings ratio has been declining steadily for the past 5 years.
the simping was asking about a dead franchise from a company that actively hates their playerbase.
but even if he got the same price for the stocks he’s still out the brokerage fee, to get his money back he needs the value to increase which is unlikely given the controversy he caused.
If he’s smart he’ll sell after botw 2
Not at all, game company stocks make you money and you are contributing to add value in entertainment to minimum tens of millions of people, a thot is completely worthless unless you get to f♥♥k her, and even then that’s a used-up worn-out corroded roastie snatch