Phil Spencer: "Nintendo future exists off their own hardware"

[VersusEvil]

Shatts said:

VersusEvil said:

God I wish, I despise having to buy Nintendo’s hardware for the small handful of games I like from them.

I love how naive some people are here. If Microsoft were to acquire Nintendo, do you really think Nintendo would remain the same? Look at Rare, and all the things they screwed over. Obviously it's not just Microsoft, but that's why acquisitions are so dangerous. Acquisition might get the IP and infrastructure, but you won't get the talent. If people really think an acquisition of something at the level of Nintendo would be good for the industry, they are incredibly stupid. That was the whole debate with Activision Blizzard as well. What happened to all the anti-trust stuff that was discussed here with the FTC case. Fanboys are crazy fr. 

Might want to get that knee checked out.