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Joelcool7 on 16 November 2009
LordTheNightKnight said:
thekitchensink said:
Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo last generation. If they can't afford them, then Apple sure as hell can't.

As far as I know, that's a misunderstanding. Microsoft just was after some land in Redmont Nintendo owned, and Nintendo finally sold it to the when they realized they didn't have anything of their own to do with it.

I have an uncle who works for Microsoft and another who works for Nintendo (Via IBM) and I remember being told of Bill Gates personally trying to buy Nintendo. He offered Nintendo any sum of money they wanted, in exchange for the GameCube and Nintendo's studios/IP's. However Iwata President at the time said he wanted Nintendo to retain control of all of its products and IP's. However Microsoft did not share that view and wanted control of the company fully once purchased. So Nintendo said no deal.

Then right after that Microsoft went to the Stamper Brothers and bought their controlling shares of Rare, then forcing Nintendo to sell its remaining shares of Rare. Microsoft also began vigerous campains to aqcuire other Nintendo studios. Like Nintendo Canada's Silicon Knights after it left Nintendo , Microsoft liscensed it to develope software for Microsoft Game Studios.

Long story short Microsoft wanted Nintendo, Nintendo said no so they made X-Box and bought as many of Nintendo's studios as possible.



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Avinash_Tyagi on 17 November 2009

Is this article from 2006, there was a bunch of articles back then about Apple trying to buy Nintendo



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

NJ5 on 17 November 2009
Kenryoku_Maxis said:

I love how anytime a company isn't making profit, people think they're going to die off or be bought out.

People need to get over this total view of profit or death absolutism. Nintendo has gone from a 15% marketshare in consoles to top of the heap. And their handheld system alone has dominated the gaming industry over the last 15 years. They're not going to suddenly throw up their hands and say 'well screw it, might as well sell'.

Plus Apple is hardly anyone to buy Nintendo. Nintendo is a company that has comparable market value and products to Apple. I'd be more inclined to think Apple would be bought out before Nintendo.

I'm not disagreeing with your post in general, but you got your premise wrong... Nintendo IS making a profit, so they're not one of those companies.

 



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Avinash_Tyagi on 17 November 2009

Yeah they're still making a lot of profit, just not as much as they did last year, yet somehow Sony which is not making profit, and selling less systems, is, if you listen to the "analysts" doing better than Nintendo.

Also why do people keep saying the Iphone or Itouch is going to compete with the DS? If anything, at its price point and the fact that with an Iphone you need a phone plan, it would probably be the PSP and not the DS that would be in danger from Apple's products.



 

Predictions:Sales of Wii Fit will surpass the combined sales of the Grand Theft Auto franchiseLifetime sales of Wii will surpass the combined sales of the entire Playstation family of consoles by 12/31/2015 Wii hardware sales will surpass the total hardware sales of the PS2 by 12/31/2010 Wii will have 50% marketshare or more by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  It was a little over 48% only)Wii will surpass 45 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2008 (I was wrong!!  Nintendo Financials showed it fell slightly short of 45 million shipped by end of 2008)Wii will surpass 80 Million in lifetime sales by the end of 2009 (I was wrong!! Wii didn't even get to 70 Million)

Kynes on 17 November 2009

El economista is considered in Spain a mixture of economical press and a tabloid, they get a lot of their news of nowhere, so you can't take them seriously.



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Kenryoku_Maxis on 17 November 2009
NJ5 said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:

I love how anytime a company isn't making profit, people think they're going to die off or be bought out.

People need to get over this total view of profit or death absolutism. Nintendo has gone from a 15% marketshare in consoles to top of the heap. And their handheld system alone has dominated the gaming industry over the last 15 years. They're not going to suddenly throw up their hands and say 'well screw it, might as well sell'.

Plus Apple is hardly anyone to buy Nintendo. Nintendo is a company that has comparable market value and products to Apple. I'd be more inclined to think Apple would be bought out before Nintendo.

I'm not disagreeing with your post in general, but you got your premise wrong... Nintendo IS making a profit, so they're not one of those companies.

 

Yeah, I worded that wrong.  Nintendo is making profit.  Its just had a substantial profit loss this year.  Even more reason Nintendo won't be bought out in my mind.  its not dying.  It just needs to fix some of its old products and bring in some third party support.



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Bladeforce on 17 November 2009
Joelcool7 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
thekitchensink said:
Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo last generation. If they can't afford them, then Apple sure as hell can't.

As far as I know, that's a misunderstanding. Microsoft just was after some land in Redmont Nintendo owned, and Nintendo finally sold it to the when they realized they didn't have anything of their own to do with it.

I have an uncle who works for Microsoft and another who works for Nintendo (Via IBM) and I remember being told of Bill Gates personally trying to buy Nintendo. He offered Nintendo any sum of money they wanted, in exchange for the GameCube and Nintendo's studios/IP's. However Iwata President at the time said he wanted Nintendo to retain control of all of its products and IP's. However Microsoft did not share that view and wanted control of the company fully once purchased. So Nintendo said no deal.

Then right after that Microsoft went to the Stamper Brothers and bought their controlling shares of Rare, then forcing Nintendo to sell its remaining shares of Rare. Microsoft also began vigerous campains to aqcuire other Nintendo studios. Like Nintendo Canada's Silicon Knights after it left Nintendo , Microsoft liscensed it to develope software for Microsoft Game Studios.

Long story short Microsoft wanted Nintendo, Nintendo said no so they made X-Box and bought as many of Nintendo's studios as possible.


  That last line there...and people wonder why Microsoft are one of the most hated companies in the world



"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.

 

""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""

68soul on 17 November 2009

Last time somebody tried, Yamauchi-san, who owns 51% of all the Nintendo's shares, told him to "kiss his yellow ass" (true story!): why do you think Jobbs wants to be humiliated the same way than Gates?

What would be funny would be the opposite way: Nintendo buys Apple... pure fiction, as Nintendo doesn't want to enter in other markets, but it would be something, that's for sure...


 

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Cheebee on 17 November 2009

This is a good thread. Made me laugh. XD



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Galaki on 17 November 2009

So, they are going to buy Nintendo* with a golden egg?


*Goose that lays golden eggs



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