Rumormongering - Apple Could Buy Nintendo?

An anonymous reader writes "CNET wonders if 'Apple is about to frag the gaming community with a revelation that could shake Microsoft to its core: Apple will buy Nintendo. What could be more quintessentially left-field Apple behaviour than buying out the U.S.'s number three games console manufacturer?' The article goes on to compare the companies, saying 'both have followings whose brand dedication verges on the religiously devout' and design styles that are so similar that 'the Nintendo DS Lite practically looks like Jonathan Ive built it.' The writer says an Apple and Nintendo merger will 'penetrate the mainstream consumer market with Macintosh computers'. The possible outcome of a merger would be a console based around the Mac Mini. As for whether Apple have the cash to pull it off: 'Cisco was rumoured to be looking at a purchase of Nintendo earlier in the year, so the idea of Nintendo being bought is not outlandish in itself. Apple's market cap is $51.7bn (Nintendo's is $23.1bn)'"

Comments

This article is crap.

[DeadChobi]

Man, must be a SLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW news day for C-Net for them to bother posting this random crap. The author goes from a wild speculation, into Apple's supposed "gaming history," then tells us that Apple might be able to raise the capital to cover such a deal. He never bothers to actually analyze any kind of trend in Apple's behavior toward such a grab for the gaming market, nor does he suggest anywhere that Nintendo might be a little opposed to the deal. Oh, wait, Apple tried making a gaming console once right? That means they're just itching to get into the market! Brilliant!

What a brain-dead piece of writing. I feel dumber for having read that.

Somebody set us up the tard.

[RoffleTheWaffle]

Whoa-ho-ho! My dumbassatron just flew off the scale! Lord almighty, I think we might have a winner - STUPIDEST ARTICLE EVER!!!

There is so much idiocy packed into this one article that I don't know where to begin. The writer of this article doesn't just say stupid things, he speaks an entire language comprised of stupid. To say the very least, this is dumbassery of the highest order. Moderate article down.

Re:And how.

[grammar fascist]

And they wonder how digg grew so fast...

Well, the article has 200 comments right now, so something must be working, right?