http://gamerant.com/apple-buy-nintendo-riley-98429/

As the article tries to suggest there would be huge advantages for both companies. What the article forgets (or willingly fails to mention?) is that if the master company will be Apple, Ninty fans will have to forget relatively cheap HW (although, thanks Flying Spaghetti Monster, SW could remain cheaper than competitors) and prepare for their favourite consoles to become posh and expensive, and themselves to become faithful macaques, spread their asses and welcome Stevie J's big, gnarly, macaque ass raping, money grabbing dick.   O-) 

Ugh, no. They wouldn't be very compatible, and Apple really doesn't have a reason to, except as a means to get at the Xbox in a very roundabout way

lol thats funny. wht the op said is funny.

long story short it won't happen

No.

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Let me think of it a bit more...

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No.

Hypothetically if this happened I wouldn't be too happy... One of my favorite companies would be owned by one of my not-so-favorite companies.

Obviously the two brands should be kept well separated, but Jobs is notorious for not allowing Apple products to be priced too low, he fears they could both tarnish the company's posh image and cannibalize upper end products sales, just think about how quickly Mac Mini turned from being the most powerful and cheapest mini-PC to being quite expensive and not so powerful compared to PC competitors (*). Keeping the brands separated could partially protect Ninty products, but not if they got features that overlap too much with some Apple products, and anyway that guy is quite greedy, not as much as Ballmer, but he comes quite close.

(*) Edit: and where the heck did Apple find CD-R/DVD player combos to equip entry level Mac Minis when those old crocks weren't even produced and sold anymore and even the cheapest PCs, by that time, offered a DVD writer as standard equipment? Did it hoard them just to make entry level models even more crippled?

Why would Apple want Nintendo? They already sell significantly more handheld hardware and furthermore the handheld strategies wouldn't mesh at all. Given that handhelds are a significant proportion of both Nintendo and Apples businesses this alone is the poison pill which makes any buyout unviable.

why would Nintendo sell themselves to anybody? lol a company loses a bit of money and people want someone to buy them?

No!

Shareholders are capitalists as in any other private company, offer them enough money and the deal is made.

The article suggests the two markets are quite independent, with Apple having larger HW and SW sales volume, but Ninty offering far bigger profit margin on SW and an unbeatable 1st party library that would take ages and tons of money for Apple to build one alike.