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runqvist on 02 January 2013
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BlkPaladin said:

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/stock/information/index.html
Here is the list of major stock holders. Yes Yamaguchi "only" has 10%, which is over 14 million shares or 1.4milion units. Which is currently worth, $1,475,052,118. Which means if anyone wants to forcibly take over the company they would have to pony up about $5.6billion. (But considering such moves will drive up stock prices the actual cost would be much more.)
The thing is you would have convince the minor independent shareholders some which hold Nintendo stock because they are Nintendo fans to sell their stock. The other major share holders you would have to offer more than the stock is worth since they are banks they are using the stocks as part of their portfolio, since Nintendo is one of the rare companies that still pay a dividen.

And they wouldn't be buying NTDOY stock they would be buying stock number 7974  off the Tokyo stock exchange. While NTDOY is Nintendo, it's not the actual stock. (I forget the technicality of it)

5.6b would not be even close to buying majority. It would take at least two times that price, but microsoft could easily afford it and some more. If they really wanted to.