I think within 5-6 years Nintendo will enter into a partnership with Microsoft. That's just the feeling I get.
Not bought out per se, but something whereby the two companies decide to work together for mutual benefit and Nintendo receives a nice fat pay cheque and MS gets to delegate some of their responsibilities in the game business to Nintendo.
I think the age of the game console in itself is coming to an end anyway, there is maybe one more console cycle left after this current one, after that, you will see like basically the Netflix of video gaming arrive and you won't need any type of game console for that, any display around your home will be able to run a game.
Your kids will laugh at you when you tell them you had to walk into a store and buy a $300 box to play games on.
