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Thing is LucasArts and Marvel were going down the drain before being bought by Disney. Im not saying Nintendo is fairing amazingly well but they are still several years away from considering a buyout.

As for the notion.... Nintendo would get a huge boost in marketing and most likely movies and TV shows. But I feel the Nintendo brand would take a hit in fan base.



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Nintendo is not going to sell to Disney- the article is either clickbait or foolish



Augen said:
I think Nintendo would ask far more than Disney would be willing to pay.


They will never accept to be buying by anybody



PS4 - over 100 millions let's say 120m
Xbox One - 70m
Wii U - 25m

Vita - 15m if it will not get Final Fantasy Kingdoms Heart and Monster Hunter 20m otherwise
3DS - 80m

The flaw in this argument is that Nintendo needs "saving"

It doesn't

Financially Nintendo is in no danger from one failed console, or even a few failed consoles.

In fact even now they are turning a small profit (granted this is mostly due to the declining value of the yen, but still its not bleeding money)

What Nintendo needs is for its developers to stop making the games they want and start making the games the consumer wants, Nintendo doesn't like making old school style games, they want to make supergamecube games and that is why the system is selling so poorly.

The reason Wii sold so well for a few years was because Nintendo stopped making gamecube style games for a while, but then they squandered all that momentum with games like Skyward sword and Other M and Mario Galaxy.



Wait, let's think about the positives here for a sec... Disney now owns the Star Wars franchise, so if Disney bought Nintendo, there could conceivably be a future Smash Bros game with Star Wars characters in it (awesome)... and we could FINALLY get an opportunity to beat the everloving shit out of Jar Jar Binks.

Do it Nintendo, merge with Disney!!!



On 2/24/13, MB1025 said:
You know I was always wondering why no one ever used the dollar sign for $ony, but then I realized they have no money so it would be pointless.

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Disney would use Nintendo's IP everywhere, and make them make multi-platform games. It wouldn't be good for Disney to artificially limit their user base.



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I was thinking of posting this but its just an opinion piece and will likely never happen. Still, I think Disney would be smart to buy Nintendo.



    

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This is just your standard Nintendoomed article wrapped in Disney flavor. Sheesh.



 
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No, just no. I like some of Disney's films but hate the Walt Disney Company. We don't need all of our media owned by Disney and Time Warner.



RolStoppable said:
I didn't read the article, but I assume it's ultimately about bringing Nintendo games to PlayStation and Xbox.

It's the oher fairy tale, how Nintendo would get third parties on board by making a powerful console. This time the twist is that for it to happen said console needs a Disney logo on it. Which makes me question if Soundwave is a writer for Polygon.