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The Ghost of RubangB on 10 March 2008

They should buy/finish/release Duke Nukem Forever as a Wii exclusive.



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elendar on 10 March 2008

They should recreate the virtual boy as a home system in full color + motion controls.



Ryudo on 10 March 2008
StarcraftManiac said:
Ryudo said:
Since they bought Monolith soft and have good relations with Capcom I would love for them to snatch up Capcom..if not Capcom then Platimum Games (formerly Seeds) which has former big time Capcom talent like from the Resident Evil series and Okami and more.

Is Shinji Mikami on Platinum games?!... Otherwise: Nintendo don't buy!


 Yip he is part of them he left capcom.

 

@ disolitude Nintendo owns them now and already released an RPG on DS Soma Bringer and they are making Disaster Day of Chrisis.



Ryudo on 10 March 2008
Resident_Hazard said:
Fastrabbit09 said:
not sure how sony is a giant of $ compared to nintendo when nintendo has a larger market share than sony now and is the 2nd largest japanese company (sony is like 5th)

Nintendo isn't larger than Sony, that's absurd.


 It's true last year around june or july it was announced Nintendo has more market share than sony and is now one of the top Japanese companies.

http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTKV00351520070625?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0

 

http://uk.reuters.com/article/technology-media-telco-SP/idUKT30751820071015?feedType=RSS&feedName=technology-media-telco-SP

 

 

Also remember Nintendo  has a generous ownership  an Anime company the Seatle Mariners Baseball team and the NBA Atlanta Hawks. 



ion-storm on 10 March 2008
Rath said:
Resident_Hazard said:
Fastrabbit09 said:
not sure how sony is a giant of $ compared to nintendo when nintendo has a larger market share than sony now and is the 2nd largest japanese company (sony is like 5th)

Nintendo isn't larger than Sony, that's absurd. Sony is a massive corporation with deep, deep pockets. Nintendo's stock was more valuable (in Japan) for a time, but that's a different matter. Nintendo focuses on video-game based entertainment and they have some TV shows and toys and crap. Sony is involved in video games, technology, tech gadgets, entertainment technology, movies, music companies, television, DVD, Blu-Ray, and about a thousand other things. Nintendo is one of the largest entertainment companies in the world, but certainly not larger than a huge corporation like Sony. Nintendo is like the Disney of video games--if Nintendo was callous and evil. The entertainment part is comparable, though.


Nintendo is both more valuable (anymore? I don't know actually but they certainly were) and more profitable than Sony. They have smaller revenue and less employees but thats not really what matters. Nintendo is a little bit similar to Google, both reasonably small, very focused on a single sector and amazingly profitable.


Being as this is only a guess, so no one say I said it was a fact. But I imagine Sony has a lot more money in fixed assets than Nintendo. Remember, revenue is not the only source of money a company has. As a whole I imagine Sony is worth a lot more than Nintendo.



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68soul on 10 March 2008
mesoteto said:
68soul said:
mesoteto said:
i think reggie knows what to do with all the money


I don't think Reggie has anything to say about the big investments: all these decisions are made in Japan by Iwata and his team, and usually also need the approval of the most important shareholders... Reggie is just a "commercial" for NoA, it's a very big role, but not THAT important in the strategy of the company...
you missed the joke....and to explain it......thats just a waste....so here ya go

 


What? You meant something like "take the money and run" about Reggie?

Ohhh, sure, then i missed the joke... but maybe because it was not really such an obvious one... sorry... once again...  :)

If you want, i may tell you a joke in french: maybe it will make you laugh, and forget about my poor english skills?

But yes, chances are, it will be a (total) waste... you'll never know what you're missing... :)

 



 

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ctk495 on 10 March 2008
The Ghost of RubangB said:
They should buy/finish/release Duke Nukem Forever as a Wii exclusive.

QFT finally a good answer.



Rath on 10 March 2008
ion-storm said:
Rath said:
 

Nintendo is both more valuable (anymore? I don't know actually but they certainly were) and more profitable than Sony. They have smaller revenue and less employees but thats not really what matters. Nintendo is a little bit similar to Google, both reasonably small, very focused on a single sector and amazingly profitable.


Being as this is only a guess, so no one say I said it was a fact. But I imagine Sony has a lot more money in fixed assets than Nintendo. Remember, revenue is not the only source of money a company has. As a whole I imagine Sony is worth a lot more than Nintendo.

 

A companies value is dictated by the share price and for a time (and possibly still) Nintendo was far more valuable than Sony. Basically people would pay more to own 1% of Ninty than for 1% of Sony, including fixed assets.

 Plus, Nintendo is almost certain to have far larger cash reserves with the massive profits they are currently making.

 



tokilamockingbrd on 10 March 2008

they should donate it to aids relief in africa( I would like to see someone argue with that!)



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68soul on 10 March 2008
ion-storm said:
 

Being as this is only a guess, so no one say I said it was a fact. But I imagine Sony has a lot more money in fixed assets than Nintendo. Remember, revenue is not the only source of money a company has. As a whole I imagine Sony is worth a lot more than Nintendo.


Sorry, but not true... for your information, take a look here:

http://forum.pcvsconsole.com/viewthread.php?tid=14876&page=3

At the start of 2008, Nintendo's worth 86.5 billions, while Sony is worth 56.8 billions... the only "richer" companies (in electronics) are Microsoft, Apple, Intel and IBM...

By example, it would be quite easy for Nintendo to buy Capcom (1.7 billion), they may find the money, or exchange some shares with actual Capcom shareholders... Capcom is only 2% of Nintendo, simple as that...



 

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and an ugly drawing in 1080p will stay ugly forever..."