Might want to check your sources.......

Nintendo had cash reserves of a little over 10 billion$ by mid 2008, so by now they should have around 12-13 billion$ of cash or so.

Microsoft had 25 billion$ of cash by end of Q1, by now they should have around 27 billion $........

As for share price Nintendo is actually the one under more pressure these days to do something to boost the share price (more dividends or another buy back program).

Microsoft share is off 22% of its high of 36$/share at the beginning of 2008.

Nintendo by comparison if off 53% of its all time high at the end of 2007.

And Apple just set a new all time high last week :P

microsoft should buy take two interactive. and be the publisher of duke nukem forever lol. also they should buy ubisoft and thats what i call to be the best lineup of first praty studios. they shouldnt forget to buy bioware and crytek along with dice and remedy.

and also buy activision to make guiar hero exclsive and the big one call of duty, maybe make world of warcraft for xbox 360 exclusive along with all my other propositions and that would be the end of the console wars. but ofcourse i dont think they are allowed to do that.

@ axumblade

I was stating that his #s were from Wikipedia, not mine.  The market caps I listed were from Yahoo Finance and were from the respective company's financials.

I just wanted rough data to show that, really, Microsoft isn't this enormous company compared to tiny little Sony. Ignoring finances, Sony has twice as many employees. If Microsoft can afford EA, so can Sony. Neither of them wants it.

M$ should buy a third world country and call it Microsoft Land, where everyone is required to register an XBL ID and use MS Points as currency. Everyone will be charged $50 a year to live their.

Why settle for a third world country? They can buy America.

There are a millions reasons but here's another.

Microsoft has a bunch of money because they take care of it. Why would they sink even more money into their games division which has lost them how much in the last 8 or so years? Even if they acquired those companies there's no guarantee it would make them much more money in the long term. Rare, cost MS nearly 400 million, were they worth it?

Furthermore, games companies are only as good as the talent the recruit and keep. If Microsoft acquired SE and EA I'm be certain there would be alot of people jumping ship.

I'm all for Wikipedia, but really, nobody could tell Carl what an asset was without referring him there? Sheesh.

Because microsofts wealth is in the OS and Office software. Not hardware