Microsoft Is Looking to Acquire Nintendo “At Some Point”
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Microsoft Is Looking to Acquire Nintendo “At Some Point”
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#2Nintendo has a family charm, IMO, that Microsoft will never be able to duplicate. Xbox is not charming, and I own both an Xbox and Nintendo. In my limited opinion, they seem to be very opposite companies. The only reason I can think of that Microsoft would acquire Nintendo would be to kill it off.
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#3Given how much regulatory resistance they’re facing just to acquire Activision Blizzard, I can’t imagine this ever happening.
Re: Microsoft Is Looking to Acquire Nintendo “At Some Point”
#4Nintendo has a family charm, IMO, that Microsoft will never be able to duplicate. Xbox is not charming, and I own both an Xbox and Nintendo. In my limited opinion, they seem to be very opposite companies. The only reason I can think of that Microsoft would acquire Nintendo would be to kill it off.
Why would they kill off a complementary product? Nintendo could be the kids/mobile brand and Xbox would be the adult living room brand. Microsoft could profit from both. It's Playstation that would become redundant in an acquisition.
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#5Nintendo has a family charm, IMO, that Microsoft will never be able to duplicate. Xbox is not charming, and I own both an Xbox and Nintendo. In my limited opinion, they seem to be very opposite companies. The only reason I can think of that Microsoft would acquire Nintendo would be to kill it off.
Why would they kill off a complementary product? Nintendo could be the kids/mobile brand and Xbox would be the adult living room brand. Microsoft could profit from both. It's Playstation that would become redundant in an acquisition.
> Why would they kill off a complementary product?
Incompetence, plus some longstanding organizational problems:
https://theartofdoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ManuCor...
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#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would they kill off a complementary product? Nintendo could be the kids/mobile brand and Xbox would be the adult living room brand. Microsoft could profit from both. It's Playstation that would become redundant in an acquisition.
> Why would they kill off a complementary product? Incompetence, plus some longstanding organizational problems: https://theartofdoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ManuCor...
Yeah Microsoft is so incompetent they’ve managed to get only a near 3T market cap.
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#7Disney would have more synergy with Nintendo I think
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#8Disney would have more synergy with Nintendo I think
Or Apple
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Why would they kill off a complementary product? Incompetence, plus some longstanding organizational problems: https://theartofdoing.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/ManuCor...
Yeah Microsoft is so incompetent they’ve managed to get only a near 3T market cap.
Oh shit, you're right, they've never done anything incompetent before!
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#10It’s been my impression that Nintendo wouldn’t go for this unless coerced or without any better options to stay soluble. We are talking about two diametrically opposed visions of what video games should be, just like Apple and Microsoft had two diametrically opposed visions of what PCs should be. Microsoft acquiring Nintendo would be a lot like Microsoft acquiring Apple - a hell-frozen-over moment that, should it have happened, meant things had gone totally sideways for Nintendo.