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zippy on 26 January 2014

Ive been round Miiverse to gather up a consortium, should have the money in no time.



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Lafiel on 26 January 2014
snowdog said:
Zisbest said:
Microsoft, Apple and Google could buy Nintendo easily. (Sony isn't able to right now).

But I don't see it happening. It has no point whatsoever, I mean, unless those firms want to get into the gaming market or have Nintendo's licenses, this wouldn't make much sense to me.

Also I don't think that Nintendo would let them buy out their company that easily

No they couldn't. They certainly have the money but for one company to buy another they need to buy a certain percentage of shares, and I doubt the majority of major shareholders will be willing to let theirs go no matter how much money they're offered.

yea, I have no idea why some people seem to think the market cap was like a price tag on a company

firstly the majority of shares must be for sale for that (which is actually very unlikely, especially for japanese corps) and secondly even if they are the price increases once you start to buy shares, so if you are doing a hostile takeover you will very likely end up paying much more than the initial market cap



Wright on 26 January 2014
kowenicki said:
Wright said:

Nintendo would seppuku itself before being purchased by another company.


Its a listed company. 


A what company?



Jumpin on 26 January 2014

Where is this 2 billion number coming from? Nintendo's market cap is almost 19 billion USD$

http://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/ntdoy



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Dulfite on 26 January 2014

Even if Nintendo were to ever get purchased by another company (which I don't see happening because they've been independent for like 100-300 years or something crazy like that) I doubt whoever bought them would be dumb enough to tell them how to run their company. Aside from the first year of the 3ds (which has been negated with positive 2013 and 2012) and the current Wii U situation, harddware wise they've been fine for a while. Software wise, someone would have to be dumber than a "suck eyed mule" to tell Nintendo to change how they make games. First party Nintendo games I think sell better than any other companies games long term.



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ICStats on 27 January 2014
Lafiel said:
snowdog said:
Zisbest said:
Microsoft, Apple and Google could buy Nintendo easily. (Sony isn't able to right now).

But I don't see it happening. It has no point whatsoever, I mean, unless those firms want to get into the gaming market or have Nintendo's licenses, this wouldn't make much sense to me.

Also I don't think that Nintendo would let them buy out their company that easily

No they couldn't. They certainly have the money but for one company to buy another they need to buy a certain percentage of shares, and I doubt the majority of major shareholders will be willing to let theirs go no matter how much money they're offered.

yea, I have no idea why some people seem to think the market cap was like a price tag on a company

firstly the majority of shares must be for sale for that (which is actually very unlikely, especially for japanese corps) and secondly even if they are the price increases once you start to buy shares, so if you are doing a hostile takeover you will very likely end up paying much more than the initial market cap

A company can make a tender offer, usually above the market price in order to make it attractive.  A majority of shareholders (51%) would have to agree.



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