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>Nintendo is a small privately-held company

Nintendo is a TSE-listed public company with a market cap of about USD 110 billion.

I was wrong that they're private (genuine misunderstanding lol), but by market cap they're competing with sony, microsoft, and tencent, who are all relatively-larger. Even Roblox is in the same neighborhood at 75B -- it's not like it's a juggernaut, it's legally vulnerable.

If a 100Bil+ company is legally "vulnerable", what would you say to the average person on that list? An iron fortress in terms of vulnerability, perhaps?

"Oh this company is smaller than Microsoft and tencent, it's so vulnerable!" I genuinely don't know if you're just a corpo lover or a Nintendo PR person. At 110B, that's more than the GDP of Oman or Luxembourg or Lithuania. And you call a company that size

> "it's not like it's a juggernaut, it's legally vulnerable"

???

Nintendo is literally about the same size as Dell or Foxconn, neither of which anyone would describe as small.

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