That guy that asked Nintendo about F-Zero paid £34,000 just to raise the question

metro.co.uk:

Perhaps the most diehard Nintendo fan of all time bought stock in the company just so he could ask about obscure old games.

Earlier this week, one of Nintendo’s shareholders asked the company if it had any plans to release a new F-Zero game. That seemed a pretty odd thing to do at the time but it turns out the backstory of the person asking the question is pretty bizarre.

You have to be a shareholder to attend the shareholder meeting (natch) and so one plucky, and presumably rich, fan decided to spend over ¥5.6 million yen (£34,000) on Nintendo stock, just to bring up the questions he wanted answered.

During the meeting, he specifically asked about potential sequels or remakes for several older properties, including F-Zero – which hasn’t seen a new entry in nearly 20 years.

F-Zero is positively cutting edge compared to some of the other games he brought up though, including Baten Kaitos, Wario Land, The Frog For Whom The Bell Tolls, Trade & Battle: Card Hero, and Chōsōjū Mecha MG.

We’re not sure what kind of answer he was expecting but the one he got was predictably vague, as Nintendo merely said that it is ‘thinking about a wide range of interesting ways to try new and old things.’

The fan, only identified by his Twitter handle of Momiji, has since been praised by others for bringing the subject up, and has even received requests to mention other dormant franchises in future meetings.

Speaking with Business Insider, he explained that he bought the stock in February, after selling stock in another company to pay for it.

While he had enough to attend the meeting, he wasn’t guaranteed an opportunity to ask a question, so he was taking quite the gamble.

A Nintendo spokesperson has confirmed that you need at least 100 shares of stock