Y'all remember anti-trust laws? Good times
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Laws? That's for poor people!
Is Nintendo even remotely interested in being purchased?
They've existed since 1889. They pretty much decided to stop following the industry and just keep doing their own thing back when the wii came out.
Something in me doubts they are strapped for cash. They own Mario, Pokemon, and a lot more. And you don't make ridiculous consoles unless you're in a position to gamble.
The IPs alone are gold let alone the games they make. Pokemon imo has been subpar for a while and it still prints money. Yea i dont see them selling anytime soon.
Worth more than gold. Pokemon is the single highest grossing IP of ALL TIME
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
Pokémon? With the poké and the mon? https://youtu.be/_kUG-YDcLuw
I guess that clip is a little dark now that we know what Bill Cosby did to women. And we don’t even know what happened to Mortimer Ichabod Marker.
For media. I thought the highest grossing general IP was Hello Kitty.
Maybe, I found this image saying it's still above Hello Kitty, but not sure about the validity - https://imgur.com/ZEORgkV
Interesting list. Supprised Lego is so low.
Hot take: the Pokémon games have always been trash, and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc
and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc
I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn't that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.
I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it's just out of tradition.
I can't remember ever enjoying a Pokémon game. I think it's for people who get a dopamine hit from collecting.
For me they were always just fun little JRPGs. I usually don't go collecting all Pokémon. I just have my roster of monsters I regularly use in fights and level up.
Nintendo has $15B in cash and the company is worth $51B.
And Microsoft has twice that cash-on-hand if they wanna get wacky with it and break some anti-trust laws that aren't enforced anymore.
The Japanese government would not allow one of the country's most cherished brands sold off to one of the worst stewards to gaming's intellectual property value.
Well as a publicly traded company they are open to hostile take overs. But we have laws for that. Also japan probably has some way to stop it
The emails also indicate that they know exactly how well loved they would be amongst the public for taking that route. Which is to say they'd join Unity and X for publicity fuckups of their own making.
Quote from the article:
However, Spencer outlined a number of blocks on the merger, including the fact Nintendo seemed uninterested in selling up. Nintendo is “sitting on a big pile of cash”, Spencer said, and was apparently happy with its current position. As a result, Spencer said he couldn’t “see an angle” on a buyout in the short term, adding: “I don’t think a hostile action would be a good move… so we are playing the long game."
So its never happening and it's at best delusional. Got it.
It’s much worse, they are buying up shares to take them over, so it’s been happening for a while.
"I say "until recently" as our former MS BoD member ValueAct has been heavily acquiring shares of Nintendo and I've kept in touch with [ValueAct CEO] Mason Morfit as he's been acquiring. It's likely he will be pushing for more from Nintendo stock which could create opportunities for us.
"Without that catalyst I don't see an angle to a near term mutually agreeable merger of Nintendo and MS and I don't think a hostile action would be a good move so we are playing the long game. But our BoD has seen the full writeup on Nintendo (and Valve) and they are fully supportive on either if opportunity arises as am I."
Weird how the OC article doesn’t even have that full quote.
Yikes, thanks for sharing. Maybe it's time for some Nintendo shareholders to ensure it doesn't become an annoying add on for Xbox. Or not, they may just take the cheques.
"Video games? Never played one. I play the only real game: "Gittin' That Cash." They got it, I want it."
It’s hard to imagine a worse company to buy Nintendo than Microsoft. They don’t even use the same spot for the A button.
Please tell me they aren’t going to strip the soul out of the last game company that is doing something different. #LeaveNintendoAlone
What are they doing different besides suing every living being that uses their name without consent and never having a sale on 10 year old games? Lol
Edit: guess no one can take a joke. That nostalgia hits hard lol
They don't try to put as much hardware as possible into their consoles just to allow developpers to skip the optimising part of gamedev.
They manage to make games that are fun to play without insane graphics.
That would be the end of Nintendo.
All the MS gaming studios acquisitions often end up with MS running them into the ground sooner than later.
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Why wouldn't he, no one's stopped M$ monopoly building lately. Good luck getting Nintendo though, it's Japans Disney in regard to both local culture and high powered lawyering and suit happy executives that will jump on the chance to loose their lawyers to earn their retainer fees.
Thpppppppt
Yeah Sure. I Bet there are many people who want to buy Nintendo.
I sent them an acquisition form with 5 dollars in cash, but they said no and sent me a bill for 5 more dollars.
And that would make the Switch the last console I bother buying.
They probably just want the mario IP
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