Nintendo shares surged upon the announcement that Pokemon Go was coming to the Apple Watch and Super Mario to the iPhone.
Just after the announcement at the apple event yesterday, the US-listed shares of Nintendo shares went up with Nintendo’s American depositary receipts closing up about 29% in strong volume. About 6 million ADRs had changed hands by 3 p.m., compared with the average daily volume of 2.2 million. The S&P 500 SPX, -0.01% was down 0.2%.
The shares was up 16% in early trading on Thursday morning on the Nikkei stock exchange in Japan.
The Super Mario Run will released in Apple’s App Store in December 2016 in more than 100 countries while Pokemon Go will be available on September 16, 2016 in most countries.
