Japan’s benchmark Nikkei stock index saw its biggest drop in four decades this morning due to fears of a looming US recession in the world’s largest economy. Nintendo, Capcom, SEGA and others saw their shares plummet, with Nintendo suffering the biggest losses with shares down more than 15% this morning. Here’s the damage done to Japanese video game companies so far:
- Nintendo -15%
- NOW -13%
- Capcom -16%
- Nexon -13%
- Cave -23%
- Konami -8%
- Sony -6%
- Awesome -10%
- cyber agent -10%
- Koei Tecmo -6%
- Square Enix -5%
