Gaming's Big Crunch. Who is being bought next?

[The_Liquid_Laser]

Pyro as Bill said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:
I think Nintendo should wait just a few more years and then buy some Western companies. If nothing else the dollar keeps gettin weaker relative to the yen. This keeps hurting Nintendo (and Sony) when they sell products in the US and then convert the money to yen. However, it becomes a benefit when Nintendo is buying, like buying a big Western company. They basically get it on sale. Also Nintendo is sitting on a huge mountain of cash that only seems to be growing.

I think a really good buy for them would be EA in the 2023-2025 time period. Nintendo systems lack big sports titles, so they would benefit a lot from having Madden and FIFA as exclusives.

FIFA isn't allowed to be exclusive afaik and EA's market cap is ~$40bn.

Didn't know FIFA isn't allowed to be exclusive.  That would make EA a bad buy.  As for the $40bn, read my whole post.  There is a reason why I said 2023-2025.  This wouldn't be a good time for a big Western acquisition, but in a few years it would be a good time.  If FIFA can't be exclusive, then they should find another big Western company or two that would fill in some gaps for their first party games.  Those Western companies will very much be "on sale" in a few years for a successful Japanese company like Nintendo.