Nintendo was the most traded stock on the Japanese Nikkei stock market in 2016. That’s thanks to Pokemon Go, which attracted lots of investor interest — everyone was flocking to trade Nintendo shares because of Pokemon Go hype. <\/p>\n

In total, the trading volume for Nintendo’s stock in Japan quadrupled in 2016 to a massive $157 billion. That’s more than car maker Toyota. It’s the first time Nintendo was the most traded stock since data became available 20 years ago, Nikkei reports<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And it’s not just trading volume that Nintendo saw spike in 2016, it’s actual share price rose dramatically as well, especially during the Pokemon Go hype last Summer. <\/p>\n

Over the past year, Nintendo shares are up 60%. And in 2017, it should continue to rise, thanks to the success of the Nintendo Switch. <\/p>\n

The Switch is doing so well that Nintendo believes it can outsell the Wii<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Beats out Japanese heavy-weights like Toyota.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":44413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xf_promoted_thread_id":0},"categories":[],"tags":[3189,2605,40],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daily.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}