Apple has a $200 billion war chest, should it buy Nintendo and Sega?

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Soleron said:

Roderic_Blackwood said:

Since I recently joined this site I've read tons of discussions in the forums about how people here wants Nintendo to drop the hardware business or that they should be third party only and now that other companies should buy Nintendo. Why the hate towards Nintendo? Does everybody here wants a duopoly with the same games, same gameplay and same specs and same everything? What a grey world!

It already is a duopoly. Nintendo still exist but the games they make no longer appeal to 20m+ people per title. They have no cultural impact any more; they've let the perception of gaming be dominated by GTA, CoD and Minecraft through inaction.

A buyout or major change of strategy could provide the catalyst for a return to relevance.

a duopoly when in recent weeks the Xone is selling like 85000 to Wii U's 60000 ? sorry, but the reality is Sony / Playstation is a one man show right now

 

when considering the 3DS + Wii U and then software sales (which Nintendo is by farrr the #1 software developer in sales in video games) Microsoft is putting together nowhere near the amount of revenue in gaming as Nintendo

for gods sake the 3DS has been out since 2011 (?) and is still beating the Xone every week

the claims that Nintendo is not relevant in the gaming industry are just absurd. There are far more conventions and tournaments these days revolving around Nintendo than Sony/Xbox.