They also tried to be Sony's partner and when Sony refused they joined the industry to stand in their way.

Since I recently joined this site I've read tons of discussions in the forums about how people here wants Nintendo to drop the hardware business or that they should be third party only and now that other companies should buy Nintendo. Why the hate towards Nintendo? Does everybody here wants a duopoly with the same games, same gameplay and same specs and same everything? What a grey world!

I wouldn't mind seeing Apple (or even Google) make a home gaming console. I don't think they should buyout Nintendo to do so though.

It should buy Sega and make the Dreamcast 2 so people will finally shut up about it.

I think Apple would prefer Sony, while MS would want Nintendo.

Why would Apple bother buying either when they could launch their own console? 

Should apple enter the console market? No. Just no. That would ruin the gaming market. Apple overcharges for their products but a large amount of consumers buy the stuff anyway because iproducts have become a sort of status symbol. If apple treated gaming consoles just like their other products, gaming would turn to shit. They're very anti-consumer and people love 'em for it. 

Also nintendo is not buyable. I don't know about sega. 

In America people with money buy politicians.  Kinda like how Turmp said he did.  It allowed him to cut corners and ignore laws. If you have money, you can get away with anything regardless of the law.  The last time the government broke up a monopoly was Bell Atlantic.  Money is everything in the US.  If you have money, you can insult other people too and people will glorify you. 

The same could be said about the entire world and every government on it.  There's no exceptions.

It already is a duopoly. Nintendo still exist but the games they make no longer appeal to 20m+ people per title. They have no cultural impact any more; they've let the perception of gaming be dominated by GTA, CoD and Minecraft through inaction.

A buyout or major change of strategy could provide the catalyst for a return to relevance.

I kinda want apple as far away from deticated video game platforms as possible. nintendo is better doing it. You dont need big corps to buy everything out, even if they wanted to. you cant just buy anything.