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

[Bryank75]

Soundwave said:

Bryank75 said:

If we lived in a world where poison pills, government intervention and a multitude of other factors were not an issue.... it would be possible. But Nintendo and Sony are untouchable behind the protection of the Japanese Gov, MS would fight tooth and nail to stay Inependent and so a hostile takeover is impossible as the shares would inflate to an ungainly sum. 

 

In this day and age "takeovers" are actually rare to non-existant. What you have is mergers unless it is a giant buying a mino. Where two large companies decide they have some symbiosis or synergy and can be vertically integrated to create value... this is where a merger is most likely. 

Apple is so much larger in terms of power over say a Nintendo or Sony that it would effectively be a take over even if it was labelled a "merger". 

Larger in terms of "power"? What do you mean? Assets? Stock value or some other metric?