Wasn't it awesome? Nintendo as a shitload of money, EA is going the wrong way and bankruptcy is possible.

Just for the sports titles it would justify the purchase!!! NFL and NBA exclusive of one console would secure the north american market.

Also The Sims would be a big hit in an exclusive form on a Nintendo console.

Maybe Crysis could be a new exclusive IP?

I'm pretty shure Nintendo has the money for this, now EA only needs to do some little more HD mistakes and some more Wii casual and "stylized design" failures and voilá...

Money would not be an issue for Nintendo to buy EA. Even if they don't have the cash on hand, they could easily borrow money for it (believe me, banks would line up at Nintendo's door selling them loans).

The problem is that it would be very un-Nintendo for them to do that. They don't buy big companies with huge baggage, they buy small developers which have development philosophies similar to Nintendo.

I suspect what will happen to EA if they continue losing money (or making little profits) is that they'll keep getting smaller, up to the point that they are almost only making licensed software (Fifa, etc.). At that point if they're still not profitable then something's very wrong and someone would buy them.

Any why would Nintendo want to buy a company becoming bankrupt?

I'm sure EA is worth heaps on paper - ignore cashflow - just based on their IPs. They could sell a couple of good ones off (Sims?) and generate billions. But its a short-term solution...

Best spin the company into two - profitable and unprofitable. Close half the studios, fire 70% of employees. They will be back to making money.

Odds are they are becoming bankrupt for a reason.

No hardware maker is going to buy EA. Multiplatform development is a key part of EA's business model, and trying to make their IPs platform exclusive would ruin their value.

no going to happen

Nintendo is very methodical when buying development studios. They like to work with them first, make sure they 'get' Nintendo's philosophy and then maybe acquire them.

EA would be a massive problem and distraction for Nintendo.

Aside from that, but EA's Sport licenses like NFL are specific in that EA has to make them for all consoles and that would still be enforced even if Nintendo bought them.

There's simply no way Nintendo would buy out EA. Too many problems, too few studios that would 'get' Nintendo's ideals. However if EA goes bankrupt Nintendo could pick up a few of their studios. Bioware maybe, as that's an area Nintendo needs help in (WRPGs) and Bioware makes top quality stuff. There's more to Nintendo's ideals than just quality but it would be a good working base to start from.

hahahah, nice one, not gonna happen, when was the last time nintendo bought a studio lol, if someone has the money to buy EA and doesn't care about losses its microsoft.

Why would they? There's no benefit to owning EA. Instead, why not buy a couple of old IPs that they own but really do not make games for any more like populous or something else.

Nintendo would have to rework EA's corporate strategy, change the overall business model, and change the way they approach making games. It will be very hard and time consuming. A lot of talented people would leave because their ideas would conflict with Nintendo's business practices, policies, and procedures. Furthermore, EA is too bloated and needs to shrink. There idea of being successful is by buying up developers and their IPs and adding them to their own has not yielded much success for the past two generations. Westwood is gone and so is Bullfrog and Pandemic.

Nintendo does not need to get involved in that mess. All they need to do is buy IPs to develop those games themselves. It will be more fruitful with less frustration and problems in the long run.

Buying EA is to decrease its worth hugely. Major sports franchises like Madden have, I think, to be multiplatform contractually.