You guys have totally crazy expectations that will simply never come true. Iwata was talking about buying some development studios. Studios like:
- Platinum (Bayonetta 2)
- indieszero (NES remix)
- Camelot (Mario Gold: World Tour) (they wanted to go to PC at some point)

There's other studios as well. In no way was he talking about doing a merger with Sony or Microsoft or buying a huge publisher like Capcom or Sega.

Acquired by Amazon.

Buy XBox division?! Why would Nintendo BUY a hardware division which Microsoft's own investors despise and want gone? I wouldn't pick it up for free.

I don't want Apple in on this, either. Apple's base will buy any hardware which has the Apple logo on it, but I'm not so sure about GAMES. Oh, sure, there's an overlap between Apple consumers and Nintendo buyers, but I'm not sold that it's more than incidental, and would really benefit no one.


The real problem is that Nintendo refuses to believe they need to market their hardware and games. Sony and Microsoft put ads everywhere for their new hardware. Nintendo has a much more complicated premise--gamepad gaming--and has done almost nothing.

IF Nitnendo has cash to do this with, I would buy IP or produce games from third party devs. I don't think they have the money, though. If they did they would have bought Atlus. Even a merge with Sony isn't a great idea. Imagine the gamepad as a $100 accessory to the PS4: you now have to pay $500 to play a Nintendo game as opposed to $300. Going peripheral would butcher their sales.

Nintendo's best bet is to stay the course, push that ad campaign, and hope that between Bayonetta 2, X, and Zelda U they get a home run. They still can manage second place in the gen.

nintendo's leadership is stubborn.

they'll bankrupt themselves and their investors long before they admit defeat.

Sony? Microsoft? Apple? Pshhh those guys are irrelevant. In any case, Nintendo should partner with influential companies that control the flow of the industry, like Valve, nVidia or AMD.

Nintendo buying out Capcom and Sega would be awesome!

Super Smash Bros. vs Street Fighter!!!

I'd be more interested in seeing acquisitions than mergers. I'd love for them to buy Sega and Capcom, so long as that doesn't change too much about the games each makes. My dream of Nintendo vs. Capcom could finally happen. Sonic would have a permanent home and would probably get better quality games. Hopefully Atlus would be allowed to keep doing what they do without Nintendo changing anything, but at least everything Atlus would come to a Nintendo system. It think those two acquisitions would be good for all companies involved, but mostly they'd just be fantastic for me :3

They wouldn't merge, that wouldn't make any sense. Microsoft is just too big. However, if the rumors that some in Microsoft want to spin off Xbox are true and come to fruition, then a merger of the Xbox spin-off and Nintendo would make a lot of sense and would probably crush everything. They'd be able to cater to every gaming taste and audience even better than Sony, support multiple systems to give different hardware options, and be the very best at marketing like no one ever was.

Id say Sega is the most likely partner.