Soundwave said:
They were doing pretty in 04-06 because of the iPod already though. Back around 1997 though, yeah it looked like they were completely finished. Bet Microsoft really is kicking themselves for not just buying them outright back then, lol. Hell, even Nintendo could've bought them outright back then. |
That actually would have been a smart move on Nintendo's part. Apple was using Power PC hardware back then and Nintendo started expressing interest in it. Nintendo would have had Apple's hardware designers meaning that the GameCube probably would have looked more like the awesome Apple G4 Cube. Nintendo would have had Apple's marketing people. With Apple's acquisition of NeXT, the NeXT OS was in the process of becoming Mac OS X meaning that Nintendo would have been light years ahead of the competition when it came to developing operating system software for game consoles. Nintendo could have been light years ahead of the competition with online development. With Steve Jobs' relationship with Disney through Pixar, Nintendo could have easily had a way of having their own animated films made (assuming Jobs' would have remained with Apple through the acquisition).
The good part about all that is Nintendo would have unquestionably dominated the gaming market and would still be number 1 today. The bad news would be that such an acquisition would probably have meant the end of the Macintosh, no OS X, no iPod, no iTunes and we would have been in a dark age of Microsoft-dominated computing that probably would have lasted until now.
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