Hands On: DS Stock Trading Game
Blog Q-Taro has a look at Hideo Kojima's (Yes, that Hideo Kojima) stock trading game Kabutore. The game stars a woman named "Nozomi," a former high school classmate you run into ten years later. She invites you to an "online trading coffee shop." Uh, 'mkay. Writes Q-Taro:
I've only just started playing the game which begins at a time over a year ago because the Nikkei 225 starts at 12,291.73, and then progresses daily so you can see your investments go up or down...There's also a part where you use the pointer to "guess" the trend of the chart by drawing the missing trendline. You get points when you guess correctly. A kind of pointless exercise really. Like most guides to stock trading in Japan, the game deals mostly with how to execute a trade and examine charts (Japanese investors love charts) There's no discussion of investment strategies or how to choose a good stock. This is not a surprise since online brokers make their money from transaction fees so they don't want investors to buy and hold.
Sound dry, but players can buy stocks like Nintendo, Square-Enix and Konami. There are also tongue-in-cheek investment funds like the Love Hotel Fund and the Idol Fun. Q-Taro also points out that "Nintendo, by the way is doing really well this year." Shocking!
Kabutore Hands On [Q-Taro]
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