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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Nintendo Should Go On A Buying Spree of Companies! But Which?

 

Who Should Nintendo Buy?

Ubisoft 12 4.55%
 
Capcom 78 29.55%
 
Konami 4 1.52%
 
Square Enix 32 12.12%
 
Take Two Interactive 12 4.55%
 
EA Games 17 6.44%
 
Sega 58 21.97%
 
Other 22 8.33%
 
No Company 29 10.98%
 
Total:264
MegaDrive08 on 24 April 2014

To me Capcom is the only one that makes sense for Monster Hunter alone that is going to sell hardware in there home land, also adding some great titles like Resident Evil, Street Fighter and access to Megaman, Nintendo needs to get more aggressive would be a big mistake if someone else buys them and they lose Monster Hunter.



 

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ImmortalHelixFossil on 24 April 2014
awesomeabe1998 said:

Obviously, Nintendo lacks third party support on both the Wii U and 3ds. If Nintendo has around $11 billion in cash reserves why dont they go on a buying spree or just the aquisition of companies's IP's. There are so many companies they can buy, western and eastern. Ubisoft as a whole is only worth $1.34 billion. Square Enix is worth around $2 billion. Konami is worth around $3.5 billion. Capcom is worth around $1.2 billion. Take Two Interactive is worth only $2.05 billion. If Nintendo bought all of these companies I listed they would still have a billion dollars left (I am not saying they should buy all these but I am showing that they have enough to acquire at least two of these companies). Even Valve is only around $3 billion. (It is rumored to be worth more than EA GAMES which is at around $3 billion as well which is weird since Electroic Arts is worth $8-9 billion) 

Imagine if Nintendo were to acquire Capcom or Konami or Square Enix and Ubisoft or Take Two Interactive or even Valve. In my opinion Nintendo should acquire Square Enix and/or Capcom along with Ubisoft and Take Two interactive. That would come up to a total of approximately $4.6-6.6 billion. They do not even need to acquire all of the company but just enough to gain exclusives and extra features. Nintendo is missing huge oppurtunities by not buying third party companies.

Who do you think Nintendo should buy?


You can't buy a whole company based on the current shares value. Who says the share holders are willing to sell a their shares for the current price? Perhaps they want to see 10% profit on each share. 



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IsawYoshi on 24 April 2014
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
awesomeabe1998 said:
Dr.Henry_Killinger said:
Don't think OP knows how business works, unless this is imagination, then they should buy Sega or EA obviously.
Sega for Japan, EA for everywhere else.


How does business work? Companies can buy other companies. Whats your point?

These companies need to be put for sale, before they can be bought, and its rare that a company would sell any assets including shares of itself at its market value since they want to make money of course. Furthemore, the company will need to have shares public enough that the company buying them could have a controlling stake in them, its not as simple as spending a cash reserve :|

It depends. Unless the company itself owns 50% + stake, there's no such thing as can't buy. It depends if the share holders want to sell or not. The share holders are for the most part not the company itself, therefore it depends. This is however called a hostile takeover, and isn't good. 

 

I would say that with most of these companies it ain't gonna happen, but Capcom isn't impossible. They are in really deep shit right now, and barely have any money left. I still wouldn't call it likely though, as they probably want to stay third party and Nintendo probably doesn't have any interest in buying.

 

Which is honestly beyond me. Capcom can be a money maker if someone could get them back on track. The question is if Nintendo can do that as they need to get back on track as well.



Nem on 24 April 2014

Sega, platinum, capcom, ubi soft. They are all good candidates.



orniletter on 24 April 2014

I think they´d be better off expanding their best studios ( a third EAD Tokyo Team, a handheld/ second Team for Retro etc.) and collaborating more with third partys than buying a big publisher.

Far too risky and expensive.

Edit: What they are doing now....but more of it !

And don´t bother with Square Enix. Eidos´ studios are in shambles and so is the japanese branch....save for a few gems here and there.



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S.Peelman on 24 April 2014

Of those I'd say Capcom and SEGA, if we were to entertain this idea. Their IPs have nearly all sold well on Nintendo systems historically, even the 'hardcore' ones like Resident Evil. I also feel they complement Nintendo's own IPs perfectly. Would also be cool to play a Total War game on the GamePad .



CDiablo on 24 April 2014

From Software, Dark Souls and Armored Core only on Wii.



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kumagawa on 24 April 2014
archbrix said:
Fusioncode said:
awesomeabe1998 said:

Obviously, Nintendo lacks third party support on both the Wii U and 3ds. If Nintendo has around $11 billion in cash reserves why dont they go on a buying spree or just the aquisition of companies's IP's. There are so many companies they can buy, western and eastern. Ubisoft as a whole is only worth $1.34 billion. Square Enix is worth around $2 billion. Konami is worth around $3.5 billion. Capcom is worth around $1.2 billion. Take Two Interactive is worth only $2.05 billion. If Nintendo bought all of these companies I listed they would still have a billion dollars left (I am not saying they should buy all these but I am showing that they have enough to acquire at least two of these companies). Even Valve is only around $3 billion. (It is rumored to be worth more than EA GAMES which is at around $3 billion as well which is weird since Electroic Arts is worth $8-9 billion) 

Imagine if Nintendo were to acquire Capcom or Konami or Square Enix and Ubisoft or Take Two Interactive or even Valve. In my opinion Nintendo should acquire Square Enix and/or Capcom along with Ubisoft and Take Two interactive. That would come up to a total of approximately $4.6-6.6 billion. They do not even need to acquire all of the company but just enough to gain exclusives and extra features. Nintendo is missing huge oppurtunities by not buying third party companies.

Who do you think Nintendo should buy?

According to this they have 4.9b in cash reserves.

http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=225291

Nope.  11.6b as of May 2013:

http://www.forbes.com/companies/nintendo/

Ninty's posted losses since then, but not that much.  

Meanwhile according to Nintendo's own finances they have $5.5 billion cash and $13 billion in current assets (including the cash) but that's not the same thing.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/pdf/2014/140129e.pdf

So no even if Nintendo wanted to the could not afford Sega, Konami, Bandai Namco or EA while Capcom would halve there cash and with there current situation a very bad idea.



Squeezol on 24 April 2014

Why does everyone think Nintendo should buy SEGA? I completely and totally disagree.



Ninricken on 24 April 2014

I think Capcom or Sega. Even Sonic and Megaman are in Smash Bros.... yeah just saying!

But I think smaller studios like Level-5 or Platinum games would be better and fit a little bit more in Nintendos policy.



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