| Dulfite said: Would you prefer Nintendo to buy a company outright, be bought by one outright, or merge with someone? |
Personally, I want Nintendo to buy out Sega (Atlus included), because across the various franchises between those three, they've pretty much got everything covered, and Nintendo could use a "mature" brand ("Sega" could fill that role nicely), thereby allowing Nintendo to keep their "Family-friendly" image more easily. I also want to see them buy some western studios of various types, including both engine-makers and quality game-makers. Oh, and while it's not strictly an "acquisition", I also want Nintendo to gather an elite group of big-name developers (like Warren Spector, Jade Raymond, Yuji Naka, Tomonobu Itagaki, Cliff Bleszinski, Koji Igarashi, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Hideki Kamiya - notice that all of these are either currently not employed in the video game industry, or have their own indie studio, yet they all made their names with a publisher).
But in thinking about mergers, I had a really interesting idea. What if Nintendo were to merge with a dedicated hardware company (as in, something along the lines of Nvidia, AMD, IBM, HP, etc)? With Nintendo's gaming dedication paired with hardware capability from one of those sorts of companies, Nintendo could potentially find themselves in a position of real power. And what's more, Nintendo could potentially have true "gaming PC" systems that function simultaneously as regular PCs and as Nintendo gaming hardware, potentially allowing them to have something more akin to Steam as part of their system while ensuring that their own hardware outperforms other such PCs for their games.
