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Soundwave on 17 July 2016
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lionpetercarmoo said:
Soundwave said:

They could go to Google or Apple right now and get a deal, I'd gauruntee it. Hell I think MS would let them handle the Scorpio right now if the deal fit certain parameters. 

Disney would also likely be in on the bidding. Facebook would probably be another very interested party. Everyone is seeing Pokemon Go go through the roof and it puts Nintendo in a very different position. 

Nintendo is in a far, far different position from Sega, they don't need to beg anyone for shit, they have a lot of money to make in the next 5 years NX or not and zero debt. Their stock price and market cap will as soon as this week be higher than all of Sony. 

That's the power of their IP. If I'm Nintendo and Sony/MS want my games, I make them jump through every hoop and if they say no, fine, great, we'll just go take a meeting with Apple. When you change your underwear upon hearing that Sony/MS you can call us back and maybe we'll pick up. 

I think it's gonna take more than one mobile game for most of those guys to start paying attention besides Facebook but who cares about them.

And then Animal Crossing iOS/Android will be a big success and then we'll see. I really don't have much doubt Nintendo can be extremely successful on mobile, they are totally going to dominate with the demographics that are there. They are not a one trick pony. 

Nintendo has considerable leverage, if you were running a business you would use the same leverage because it'd be stupid not to. It's simply bad negotiating.

This is like saying to a Victoria Secret model that just because she got divorced, now she has to settle for the next fat guy who's been eying her at the bar. Yeah, no, she's going to have plenty of options and plenty of suitors. 

Pokemon Go may very well be the biggest gaming phenomenon of the decade too. 

I'd bet right now the people at Universal Studios are doing backflips that they got to the rights to Nintendo character IPs for theme parks and locked that down before Disney could. And on the other side I'd bet there's more than a few Disney execs this week that will be kicking themselves for not beating Universal out for the rights. 

If you don't think Apple and Google (which is actually co-partnered with Nintendo on Pokemon Go through Niantic) are paying attention to Pokemon Go ... I think you're dead wrong on that too. If CNN and every major media outlet in the US is paying attention, Apple and Google sure as hell are.