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Ultrashroomz on 17 June 2014

Buying Capcom would bring more IPs, but it ain't gonna automatically solve Nintendo's problems like that.



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Fusioncode on 17 June 2014
Zero999 said:

"In the event that Microsoft, Sony, or some other company even allows Nintendo to buy such an amazing and important company. "

ms and sony are in no position to "stop" nintendo.

answering the thread's title: It would solve all of CAPCOM's problems. for nintendo, it would be a great adition.

If Microsoft wanted to open up their checkbook they could outbid Nintendo 5 times over. But Nintendo isn't purchasing Capcom. The most likely option at this point is Tencent. 



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umegames on 17 June 2014

It's a wonderful idea, 1 because of the IP's they gain and the outside revenue that those IP's earn via comics, animation, books, toys, etc.
2. they gain a good deal of talented employees to not only make more of those franchises, but to branch out and work on some nintendo franchises.
Don't be fooled, capcom has good staff, just bad leadership of what should be done and why.



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torok on 17 June 2014
DerNebel said:

Explain how it works then.


I was going to post exactly that, you beat me :)



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S.T.A.G.E. on 17 June 2014

If Capcom could help Nintendo they wouldnt be in the position they are in right now.



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Cobretti2 on 17 June 2014

no it wouldn't solve their problems because other console gamers said that one of the other two should buy it instead cause they don't like nintendo games so why should they have to buy the hardware.

Just like we had to buy the ps1 to play FF lol.



 

 

Zero999 on 17 June 2014
DerNebel said:
Zero999 said:
torok said:
Nintendo buys Capcom:
1 - Nintendo buys Capcom by X per stock
2 - Nintendo announces that Capcom software will be exclusive
3 - Stock falls hard until X/2 or X/3. Nintendo can't even sell Capcom anymore.
4 - Software sales fall because it is on less platforms.
5 - Income falls hard. Nintendo can't cut costs without mass layoffs but that would be impossible without expending fortunes to do everything according to working laws.
6 - Capcom sucks Nintendo money and selling it to other now would add mass losses.

Replace Nintendo with Sony or MS if you like. The only way that this wouldn't happen is if a neutral 3rd party buys it. People criticise Nintendo for not buying Atlus, but is a similar story than this one, it simply doesn't work the way people would like it. When you buy an IP, it's good, you can do games. When you buy a company, you get the IPs, the personal, their structure and a bunch of problems. You buy healthy business, not sick business. MS bought Rare because they were healthy and are way smaller than Capcom, it's more manageable. Nintendo buying Capcom would just push them to financial problems, exactly what would happen to MS or Sony. Just like THQ, nobody wanted a sick company that was losing money. When they went down, others just grabbed their IPs without worrying with ressurecting a dying company (not saying that Capcom is dying, they just need some restructuration efforts).

That's totaly not how it works.

Explain how it works then.

It's pretty obvious that the outcome of each item of the list is determined by how the new owner will administrate capcom's games and studios. saying that the worst case for everything will happen without any argument is not how it works.



Zero999 on 17 June 2014
Fusioncode said:
Zero999 said:

"In the event that Microsoft, Sony, or some other company even allows Nintendo to buy such an amazing and important company. "

ms and sony are in no position to "stop" nintendo.

answering the thread's title: It would solve all of CAPCOM's problems. for nintendo, it would be a great adition.

If Microsoft wanted to open up their checkbook they could outbid Nintendo 5 times over. But Nintendo isn't purchasing Capcom. The most likely option at this point is Tencent. 

bolded: True, but my argument is based on the fact that microsoft doesn't want to. if the CEO is even trying to get rid of the xbox brand, they won't spend hundreds of millions on a gaming company. they must regret wasting money on rare even today.



NintendoPie on 17 June 2014

Even if some of the IPs and complete exclusivity would help Nintendo, I doubt Nintendo would buy them anyway. I'm quite positive Capcom is worth a lot and Nintendo, even with their large assets and money in the bank, wouldn't be willing to shell out some serious amounts of money for one company that has several of it's own problems.

If this was Capcom selling off their IPs then it would make perfect financial sense. However, this is a stock takeover of a company and I'm pretty positive that's the harder route. It could work out, and I don't agree with looking purely at worst case scenario, but there are drawbacks.



jonathanalis on 17 June 2014

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