The truth is Nintendo and Sony wouldn't be worth buying to Apple for what they bring to the table.
Apple sells more hardware in a quarter than Nintendo or Playstation do in 2 years in some cases.
While having Mario & friends exclusive to Apple devices I'm sure has some certain appeal to Apple, it's not really worth the $30 billion or so it would require.
The company Apple should target some day is probably Disney ... that would cost a lot, but it would also bring a lot of things under the Apple umbrella ... ie: Disney's catalog of films could be Apple exclusive if they wanted for instance.







