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irstupid on 01 January 2009

Wasn't Nintendo at one point a love hotel company too?



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Batman...WTF? on 01 January 2009
irstupid said:
Wasn't Nintendo at one point a love hotel company too?

Yep. No one knows what the hell happened, but now it makes games.



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irstupid on 01 January 2009
Batman...WTF? said:
irstupid said:
Wasn't Nintendo at one point a love hotel company too?

Yep. No one knows what the hell happened, but now it makes games.

 

No wonder the Wii is so popular with women, they were testing the Wiimote in the hotels way back then, lol.



Batman...WTF? on 01 January 2009
irstupid said:
Batman...WTF? said:
irstupid said:
Wasn't Nintendo at one point a love hotel company too?

Yep. No one knows what the hell happened, but now it makes games.

 

No wonder the Wii is so popular with women, they were testing the Wiimote in the hotels way back then, lol.

Ohohohoho... Clever...



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Tyrannical on 02 January 2009

Some companies DON'T like to pay out cash dividends. This usually happens with companies largely owned by rich individuals. When a company pays dividends, the stock holders have to claim this as taxable income. If the company instead just keeps the cash, the stock value goes up, and stockholders do not have to pay income tax on the increased stock value until it is sold. MS is the same way.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 02 January 2009
JaggedSac said:
irstupid said:
JaggedSac said:
irstupid said:
ha yea I don't feel like talking politics either. My idea of politics is that each state should be in charge of its own rules/laws ect, while the government just prints money and protects us with the Military. If you don't like some rule in California, move to Arizona. Kind of like some states have death penalty and others don't. The government shouldn't ever be able to pass laws forcing all states to accept or deny death penelty, abortion, gun control or whatever else. It should be up to states.

Also why do we the U.S. get involved in every damn thing in the World. Let other countries settle their own disputes. If it is shown to be a threat to us then deal with it, but if we go to war and win like in Iraq don't rebuild it for THEM. Never in history do the victors ever help the loosers rebuild. You take that country for your own. But whatever. Let us be some pushovers. All civilizations always fall sooner or later. Rome, Egyptions, Mongol Empire and many others all fell. No civilization is immune to time. Someone will take the thrown from us sooner or later. Not saying in my time.


But man I would have loved to have bought nintendo share 2 years ago.

Fan of the Confederacy huh?

 

ha no, why would i be a fan of the confederacy.  To me the more the governemnt passes nationwide laws teh closer we are getting to being a communist based country.

 

And there is something different about allowing a death penalty and allowing slavery.  You can't compare Owning People to anything else.  Obviously there have to rules about owning people, racial equality, sexual equality, or human rights.  But that is basically in the constitution already.

 

Slavery was not the main reason for the Confederacy.  It was state's rights.

 

 

 except Slavery was the reason for the pre civil war realignment, that killed the Whig party, created the Republican party and brought about the election of Lincoln under the Republican banner, leading to the seccession, you can't avoid the slavery issue as a root cause of the civil war.



 

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Resident_Hazard on 02 January 2009

You know what Nintendo should do with that money that would give them leagues more franchises, names, and titles than anyone? They should finally up and buy Sega, and reform the company's franchises under a tighter umbrella of quality control.

They should definitly buy Sega.



outlawauron on 02 January 2009
irstupid said:
JaggedSac said:

Slavery was not the main reason for the Confederacy.  It was state's rights.

 

Ok, I'm sure they used the state's rights as a more justified reason.  But it still mainly came down to they wanted the states to be able to decide on slavery, which is wrong.  No Government, state, Nation should be able to make rules/laws that allow any ownership of another person.  It is just wrong.

Of course it is in this day and age, but at the time it was a necessary evil.



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Plaupius on 02 January 2009

For all those who say Nintendo should buy this or that studio or publisher, you do realize that the great majority of mergers and acquisitions fail to deliver the results set for the merger/acquisition? Corporate cultures are often times incompatible, the management may not share the same vision, differences in work and business processes cause loads of problems, and the list goes on. It's a very rare exception that a merger or acquisition delivers 100% of what was expected, and those cases are the ones where the whole deal has been painstakingly planned and all preparation work has been done right, and there is a substantial amount of luck present. Just going out buying companies is a sure fire way to get into heaps of trouble.



Squilliam on 02 January 2009

It looks like the war chest is full enough for about 5 more generations. Nintendo isn't going anywhere anytime soon, SCE on the other hand... The future isn't so secure.



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