| Kakadu18 said: Btw, I just looked up Nintendo's net worth and found two contradicting numbers as of 2022. |
There are tons of different ways to calculate net worth of a company. For a company like Nintendo, whose primary value is in intangible assets (i.e. IP like Mario or Zelda), it's incredibly hard to calculate. I'm guessing the sites you're using use stock value as a measure of net worth (what would it take to buy all the stock of the company), but that's not really a method that a company looking to do a takeover would utilize. They would be more interested in earning projections, generally.
For a simple example, think of someone valuing Nintendo in 2014-15. They would have likely vastly underrated Nintendo's earnings potential and offered far less than the brand was actually worth. It's not an exact science.
| BasilZero said: Damn, no joke this is huge. |
I'm not sure why for Nintendo? I know there are a few games, mainly Blizzard, that have been brought over to the Switch and done reasonably well, but I think Activision games are a fairly minor part of their overall business. And, I'm not sure that Microsoft won't sell certain games that they think will do well on Nintendo platforms as they have been doing.
As for Sony, that's harder to say. I think Microsoft is more interested in selling content than hardware. I think the pitch will likely be "you could buy pay 70 dollars to play it on Sony's system, or pay 10-15 dollars a month for Gamepass". I sort of doubt they'll keep it out of Playstation entirely.
I think we're getting close to a Netflix style world, where it's going to be pretty common for people to have both Gamepass and whatever Sony offers to compete with. I don't think Microsoft will feel the need to sacrifice a large part of their potential revenue to keep people from buying a PS5. I think they'll just be happy as long as you have a Gamepass subscription on some platform.
