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EA Founder Predicts MS Purchase of Nintendo

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-quite-an-eight-ball dept.

New site Xbox2News.com (via Evil Avatar) has up an interview with Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts and recent AIAS inductee. During the course of the interview, he is asked what he sees as the future course for Nintendo. His answer? "My magic eight ball says they will be acquired by Microsoft within five years." Tycho has commentary on the man's forcasting abilities in today's post.

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  1. "Hey, Ballmer.. Why don't"... by rylin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah, I'm sure MS will try again after what happened last time. . .
    http://www.gamerah.com/ver_imagen.php?id=226
    http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20547

    1. Re:"Hey, Ballmer.. Why don't"... by GreenHell · · Score: 4, Informative

      How about the comments of someone who checked with Wired, or Nintendo's own response to the article?

      Or you could, you know, go straight to the supposed source (Wired Magazine, Feb. 2005 issue), and see that it's not listed anywhere.

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      "I won't mod you down - I feel the need to call you a twit explicitly, rather than by implication."
  2. Re:Lets just say by Ayaress · · Score: 3, Informative

    Those are also good reasons that Nintendo won't be bought by Microsoft. They've got dominance in the mobile market, but I'll admit (I don't like to admit, but I will) that that dominance is probably not going to last out the year.

    Even so, Nintendo's not going anywhere. They survived major screwups in the past because they're a huge company, and remember that video games aren't their only product. Nintendo's been around since 1889, and they have a lot of power behind them.

    The worst thing that I see happening to Nintendo (it's still years off if it happens, but the PSP just might be the deciding factor one way or the other) is that they'll go the way of Sega - not making systems anymore, but producing their games accross multiple other systems. They have the franchise power, and I believe they still have the genius in there somewhere to make truely new things.

    Mario on the Xbox? Pokemon on the PSP? Zelda on the PC? Hell, I never thought I'd see Sonic and Mario on the same system in my lifetime, but it's happened, and I think Sega is better for it in the long run.