Y'all remember anti-trust laws? Good times
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Laws? That's for poor people!
Is Nintendo even remotely interested in being purchased?
They've existed since 1889. They pretty much decided to stop following the industry and just keep doing their own thing back when the wii came out.
Something in me doubts they are strapped for cash. They own Mario, Pokemon, and a lot more. And you don't make ridiculous consoles unless you're in a position to gamble.
The IPs alone are gold let alone the games they make. Pokemon imo has been subpar for a while and it still prints money. Yea i dont see them selling anytime soon.
Worth more than gold. Pokemon is the single highest grossing IP of ALL TIME
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
Pokémon? With the poké and the mon? https://youtu.be/_kUG-YDcLuw
I guess that clip is a little dark now that we know what Bill Cosby did to women. And we don’t even know what happened to Mortimer Ichabod Marker.
For media. I thought the highest grossing general IP was Hello Kitty.
Maybe, I found this image saying it's still above Hello Kitty, but not sure about the validity - https://imgur.com/ZEORgkV
Interesting list. Supprised Lego is so low.
Hot take: the Pokémon games have always been trash, and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc
and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc
I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn't that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.
I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it's just out of tradition.
I can't remember ever enjoying a Pokémon game. I think it's for people who get a dopamine hit from collecting.
For me they were always just fun little JRPGs. I usually don't go collecting all Pokémon. I just have my roster of monsters I regularly use in fights and level up.
Nintendo has $15B in cash and the company is worth $51B.
And Microsoft has twice that cash-on-hand if they wanna get wacky with it and break some anti-trust laws that aren't enforced anymore.
The Japanese government would not allow one of the country's most cherished brands sold off to one of the worst stewards to gaming's intellectual property value.
Well as a publicly traded company they are open to hostile take overs. But we have laws for that. Also japan probably has some way to stop it
The emails also indicate that they know exactly how well loved they would be amongst the public for taking that route. Which is to say they'd join Unity and X for publicity fuckups of their own making.
Quote from the article:
However, Spencer outlined a number of blocks on the merger, including the fact Nintendo seemed uninterested in selling up. Nintendo is “sitting on a big pile of cash”, Spencer said, and was apparently happy with its current position. As a result, Spencer said he couldn’t “see an angle” on a buyout in the short term, adding: “I don’t think a hostile action would be a good move… so we are playing the long game."
So its never happening and it's at best delusional. Got it.
"Video games? Never played one. I play the only real game: "Gittin' That Cash." They got it, I want it."
Please tell me they aren’t going to strip the soul out of the last game company that is doing something different. #LeaveNintendoAlone
What are they doing different besides suing every living being that uses their name without consent and never having a sale on 10 year old games? Lol
Edit: guess no one can take a joke. That nostalgia hits hard lol
They don't try to put as much hardware as possible into their consoles just to allow developpers to skip the optimising part of gamedev.
They manage to make games that are fun to play without insane graphics.
It’s hard to imagine a worse company to buy Nintendo than Microsoft. They don’t even use the same spot for the A button.
That would be the end of Nintendo.
All the MS gaming studios acquisitions often end up with MS running them into the ground sooner than later.
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Why wouldn't he, no one's stopped M$ monopoly building lately. Good luck getting Nintendo though, it's Japans Disney in regard to both local culture and high powered lawyering and suit happy executives that will jump on the chance to loose their lawyers to earn their retainer fees.
Thpppppppt
Yeah Sure. I Bet there are many people who want to buy Nintendo.
I sent them an acquisition form with 5 dollars in cash, but they said no and sent me a bill for 5 more dollars.
They probably just want the mario IP
And that would make the Switch the last console I bother buying.
To be clear, I hope it doesn't happen....BUT from a business perspective, it really could be amazing.
Nintendo has always focused on the fun. Forget about the latest tech and the best specs. They don't care about that, they've always focused on innovation, trying oddball things and focusing on fun games. If MS bought them, they have the pockets and know-how to do as cutting edge hardware as you can imagine.
So applying Nintendo's strengths with actually cutting edge hardware,I could see some good things getting released. Imagine a VirtuaBoy using HoloLens technology. Or a Switch 3 console that was 2x more powerful than Series X.
You have no idea what you're talking about. Nintendo has oodles of cash sitting around from the Wii days to do whatever they want. And you already stated the reason there isn't a Switch more powerful than the Series X: not because Nintendo doesn't have access to it, but because Nintendo doesn't care about that. More power = more time spent optimizing graphics = less time to focus on making the game fun. That's Nintendo's business model, and it works.
Nintendo has the money to build any hardware they like. It's an artistic priority, not a financial constraint.
I sure hope it wasn't artistic priority that lead to them building a joystick that drifts very easily.
Actually that was a personal priority. My uncle works for Nintendo Power and he said they did it just to annoy you specifically, Stephen01King.
Unfortunately I never bought a Switch, so they failed at their mission. Sorry you all had to be the victim in my place.
My uncle says "Drat!"
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