Microsoft Is Looking to Acquire Nintendo “At Some Point”(twistedvoxel.com)
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Microsoft Is Looking to Acquire Nintendo “At Some Point”
https://twistedvoxel.com/microsoft-looking-to-acquire-nintendo-future-exists-off-of-its-hw/
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Nintendo has a family charm, IMO, that Microsoft will never be able to duplicate. Xbox is not charming, and I own both an Xbox and Nintendo. In my limited opinion, they seem to be very opposite companies. The only reason I can think of that Microsoft would acquire Nintendo would be to kill it off.
Why would they kill off a complementary product? Nintendo could be the kids/mobile brand and Xbox would be the adult living room brand. Microsoft could profit from both. It's Playstation that would become redundant in an acquisition.
> Why would they kill off a complementary product?
Incompetence, plus some longstanding organizational problems:
https://theartofdoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ManuCor...
Incompetence, plus some longstanding organizational problems:
https://theartofdoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ManuCor...
Yeah Microsoft is so incompetent they’ve managed to get only a near 3T market cap.
Oh shit, you're right, they've never done anything incompetent before!
Ya, I totally said they’ve never done anything incompetent lmao.
Halo was a much better game series when Microsoft was worth a lot less.
Increased stock valuation doesn't mean better games.
Increased stock valuation doesn't mean better games.
It’s been my impression that Nintendo wouldn’t go for this unless coerced or without any better options to stay soluble. We are talking about two diametrically opposed visions of what video games should be, just like Apple and Microsoft had two diametrically opposed visions of what PCs should be. Microsoft acquiring Nintendo would be a lot like Microsoft acquiring Apple - a hell-frozen-over moment that, should it have happened, meant things had gone totally sideways for Nintendo.
Given how much regulatory resistance they’re facing just to acquire Activision Blizzard, I can’t imagine this ever happening.
Disney would have more synergy with Nintendo I think
Yeah we saw the trainwreck with the Star Wars IP. Let's not go there.
What train wreck? Everyone I know is overjoyed for Ahsoka this week.
Or Apple
Even the thought of it is terrifying after seeing what Microsoft has done to Windows especially after Windows 10.
They'd be stupid not to want to, I imagine Sony has pretty much the same intent
The leaked document link doesn’t resolve for me. It sounds like this is a separate incident from the very early 2000’s one? (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-06/xbox-the-...)
“BACHUS Steve made us go meet with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired. They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.”