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Colin
Posts: 3472/11302 |
Don't forget that Microsoft was making a ton of PC games before the Xbox came out.  Simple logic, yeah, but they weren't jumping into the industry flat-footed. |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 1153/4249 |
Well, I think that Microsoft making games is a good thing. They're not making crappy games at least. |
Icy Guy
Posts: 26/36 |
Yes. Some people believe that MS only entered the industry for money (or for other gain), and that they shouldn't be making games or consoles.
I can see where they might be coming from, but I think it's completely ridiculous. |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 1143/4249 |
Originally posted by Icy Guy
by the logic that MS shouldn't be in the industry, none of them have any right to make consoles or games!
What? IN some people's logic, MIcrosoft shouldn't be a gaming compagnie? |
Icy Guy
Posts: 25/36 |
Ok, time for some food for thought...
Nintendo started out as a playing card company.
-Sony started out as...well, do I need to tell you?
-Microsoft started out as...well, I don't need to explain this either.
So you know what this means? Not one of the current "big three" started out as game companies, so, by the logic that MS shouldn't be in the industry, none of them have any right to make consoles or games! How 'bout that? |
Colin
Posts: 3406/11302 |
The press was reporting it as Gates WANTING to buy Nintendo though, Imoto.
That itself would make quite a few people nervous. But hey, Nintendo isn't in a position where they have to sell, so that point's moot. |
KawaiiImoto-e
Posts: 450/1068 |
May I quote what I wrote at the creation of this thread:
Originally posted by KawaiiImoto-e
According to NintendoFans and Spiegel Online and Wirtschaftswoche, would Microsoft offer a good price if Hiroshi Yamauchi (last Nintendo President, current holder of most Nintendo Stocls) decides to sell his Stocks of Nintendo.
What do you think if Microsoft would buy Nintendo?
Will the creativity go downhill, or will the 'joint-venture' of Gates and Iwata storm the Videogamemarket with a good Online Concept, a console with much horsepower and a lot of creative and high quality games?
I never stated that Microsoft is buing Nintendo right now, but would hestiate to offer Nintendo a good price, if they decide to sell.
And the Question was: What do you think, if Microsoft would buy Nintendo?
If the other readers can't comprehend and fully understand what I have written and Colin just stated nicely with the Quote above, they have to read more carefully. |
alte Hexe
Posts: 1024/5458 |
I was more or less certain this wasn't going to happen, but the fact of the matter is that Microsoft could stage an aggressive takeover if they really wanted to. Microsoft and Sony are equally powerful, and between those two, Nintendo is probably going to become the third tier contender with the best games. The business world is sad, but the guy with the biggest claws will survive the best. |
Colin
Posts: 3386/11302 |
Well, I can't blame you all.  The media does tend to exaggerate on certain things and twist facts... good case here.  |
ProtoGuts
Posts: 4/9 |
You kids who all said "OMG... if Nintendo gets bought by Microsoft the end of the world will come"... one abbreviation for four words... stfu...
Now, Colin has already exposed this as a rumor. But IMO the best thing the two companies could do is "join forces", but as that's not going to happen so we'll just end that topic here... |
Ailure
Posts: 3995/11162 |
If Microsoft would buy Nintendo, I would be worried at least. Glad that they didn't get bought by Microsoft... but at the same time it would be intresting. 
You know, after seeing Westwood getting killed by EA. I'm quite paranoid about giant companies buying another big or medium one. |
Legion
Posts: 1695/5657 |
I didn't think Nintendo was going to be bought, but it was fun to discuss the possibilities anyway. |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 1015/4249 |
Thanks Colin ! I now know that Nintendo will remain the same. |
Colin
Posts: 3370/11302 |
Copy/paste from GameSpot to clear ALL these rumors up:
RUMOR #1: Bill Gates has announced that Microsoft is buying Nintendo.
Source: German finance magazine Wirtschaftswoche.
The official story: "Nintendo won't sell itself [to Microsoft]. It's not a possibility, and there is no such talk at all."--Nintendo public relations chief Yasuhiro Minagawa.
What we heard: This week's most widespread tall tale showed that the mainstream press is not above a bit of rumor-mongering. At the beginning of the week, Wirtschaftswoche ran an article with the headline "Microsoft planning to take over Nintendo?" The article contained the following quote from Bill Gates: "If [Former Nintendo president and major stockholder] Yamauchi calls, I'll pick up the line immediately." While the notion was preposterous to anyone remotely familiar with the game industry, the mainstream press ate it up. Reuters, CNN, Forbes, and the New York Times all published stories about the would-be takeover. Nintendo's stock price rose 3.8 percent up at 12,580 yen ($113) on the news. GameCubers thought the apocalypse had come. However, none of it was true. It turns out Gates' comment was an off-the-cuff remark made at a cocktail reception after Microsoft's July 29 analyst presentation. "He was just saying that that he would talk to Yamauchi on the phone," an informed source told GameSpot. "His comments were taken way out of context."
Bogus or not bogus?: Bogus. |
DarkSlaya
Posts: 1006/4249 |
I say that the TV looks good. A little bigger, with a Gamecube in it and now your talking. |
SePH
Posts: 130/459 |
Originally posted by DarkSlaya
Originally posted by Comrade Kalashnovich
- A TV with name Nintendo at the Bottom  ..
- A DVD Player by the codename NiNTENDO17002-005
- A New OS by the name Nintendo Miyamoto XP
- Nintendo Internet Explorer 6.01
I'd Like to see this someday....
etc... you get the idea... $$$$$ buys all
It's been like that for awhile already.
Well about Nintendo going for televisions...  I'm not really sure the name would fit... see:
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DarkSlaya
Posts: 1004/4249 |
Originally posted by Comrade Kalashnovich
- A TV with name Nintendo at the Bottom ..
- A DVD Player by the codename NiNTENDO17002-005
- A New OS by the name Nintendo Miyamoto XP
- Nintendo Internet Explorer 6.01
I'd Like to see this someday....
etc... you get the idea... $$$$$ buys all
It's been like that for awhile already. |
SePH
Posts: 119/459 |
The big problem about Nintendo, is the fact that they are only active on the Gaming Market... While Sony, they have the electronics, gaming, software... Microsoft, they have the software, gaming at there sleeves...
Things we don't see/we will probably never see:
- A TV with name Nintendo at the Bottom ..
- A DVD Player by the codename NiNTENDO17002-005
- A New OS by the name Nintendo Miyamoto XP
- Nintendo Internet Explorer 6.01
I think that MiCRo$$$oFT buying NiNTENDo, might be a good idea; as long as all the new software comes in with the name Bill Gates in the end credits
------------------------------
MANY THANKS TO:
------------------------------
Bill Gate$$$$$
Orochimaru
Sasuke
Jiraiya
Uchiha Itachi
Bill Gate$$$$$
Shizune
Naruto
Ino
Sakura
Bill Gate$$$$$
Nintendo of America Inc.
Microsoft Inc.
etc... you get the idea... $$$$$ buys all |
KawaiiImoto-e
Posts: 443/1068 |
Originally posted by Ziffski
The total assests of Nintendo are relatively low for a multi-national corporation of their size. A total liquidation of their production facilities, patents, stock, etc. would probably bring in only 20 billion dollars of sales.
Now, if the games divisions of Sony or MS did that, you could see something closer to 60-80 billion.
Oh, and Microsoft is starting to pick up in Japan because consumers realized "Holy shit, they're the first company to literally bend over backwards to please us with everything that we could ever want...". It's not a big pick up, but their profit margin is closing in on 0.
Is that a Billion with 9 or 12 Zeros? |
Colin
Posts: 3321/11302 |
Don't forget Nintendo still has a new console up their sleeves at E3... Then again, so does everyone else.
And I think that the *little bit* of success the GBA's had doesn't exactly hurt. |
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