Friday was the last business day available to purchase your Nintendo stock before Sunday's date of record. Nintendo will be announcing the 2012 interim dividend payouts this upcoming week. With the Nintendo 3DS xL selling well and anticipation of the upcoming Wii U, I'm hoping the payout will be good. (The last payout was $0.1569/share, after a net operating loss.)
If you missed out on buying stock for the dividends, it's still not too late to make money with Nintendo. As of the time I'm writing this, their stock (ticker NTDOY) is at $15.87/share. I see it as inevitable that the prices will rise considerably over the next year, so it's still worth your investment. I got 22 shares this past month and plan to buy several more this year.
Their stock has been just under $12.00/sh after a bad earnings report this quarter, related to all the investment to launch the Wii U. They will make a dividend announcement at the end of March but skipped the interim dividends last period.