why would Nintendo ever merge with another big video game company? they would have to have a lot of failures to even be in trouble based on their cash and asset reserves (which is larger than Sony's at this point when considering Sony's debt). but even if somehow a decade from now it came to that why would they merge rather than just become an independent software developer when leaving console developing?
bear in mind Japan makes it fairly complicated for companies to but other other ones. it's easier if you're a Japanese company attempting to take over another Japanese company, but still not that simple of a thing. with that said obviously if they essentially picked Microsoft or Sony (with the assumption that both are big in video games in the future) then they'd obviously pick Sony. both are Japanese. bear in mind, again, that the Japanese government basically blocks foreign companies from taking very large parts of their nations businesses. always has been that way
at any rate, like I mentioned before, Nintendo could probably fail with their primary for console for like 5 more generations and still not destroy their cash reserves. granted they are a business and do have investors so I doubt they'd last that long in failure, but they are currently quite far from a situation in which any acquisition or merger would be considered
