Nintendo stock soars from Switch sales, GameStop gets profit boost

After years of disappointing sales, uninspired product launches, and even some doomsday predictions, Nintendo has -- evidenced no more forcefully than the 8-year high that its stock price reached by the end of this week. The company closed at 33,510 yen ($300.72) per share on Japan's Nikkei exchange. The last time Nintendo was looking at numbers like that, it was busy celebrating the way it reinvented the gaming marketplace with its motion-sensing Wii console. Over the past eight years, though, the novelty of the Wii began to wear off; its successor, the Wii U, was miserably behind its competitors in… [Continue Reading]