Apple to buy Nintendo?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

haxxiy said:

scorptile said:

firelink said:
Nintendo's market value is between $55 and $70 billion.

I am honestly sick of the misinterpretation that they are a small company with a tiny market cap. Just two years ago they passed up Sony in net worth and market cap, so I highly doubt they could just be bought out, especially with their former CEO still owning a healthy amount of the stock.

this is exactly what im talking about nintendo's worth is so much more then apple's worth. 

 

Nintendo is worth some 1.56 trillion yen right now it seems, or about $20 billion. Sony is worth some $23 billion, and Apple eight times them both combined (a whooping $347 billion). Think we are still in '07?

Not that Apple is going to buy Ninty or Sony BTW. Nintendo tried to be Apple once, but they're still too different, let alone Sony and their risky marketing moves. Apple is in her own league as far as value and profits go, compared to the average electronics company. She shipped some 20 million iPhones in the last quarter to cry it out loud.

This. BTW the article says Apple has ~$50billion cash, currently. About the undeniable differences, the author thinks Ninty would be perfect for Apple to expand to a profitable market Apple alone wouldn't be able to cater for unless it spends billions $ and decennia of time to establish strong franchises, faithful user base and brand recognition in the console market, buying Nintendo could solve the problem for a huge amount of money as doing it by itself, but saving many years and being profitable from the start.