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Rumormongering - Apple Could Buy Nintendo?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the idle-friday-arguments dept.

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)'"

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  1. Re:Stupid. by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes, you have to wonder: was this article secretely written by Dvorak?

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  2. Huh? by MuckSavage · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wait, wasn't sony buying apple? No wait. Disney was buying apple. No, crap. Pixar is buying disney. No that's not it. Microsoft bought apple back in '95! No, that's not right.

    I'm so confused.

  3. AHHHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA by WedgeTalon · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is one of the silliest things I've read all week.

    Yes, the very profitable Nintendo is going to sell themselves to the maker of the Pippin. That would be a brilliant move!

  4. whatever by aleksiel · · Score: 5, Funny

    apple could buy /., too, for its new sleek, stylish look

  5. The Apple Purchase/Speculation Game! by ettlz · · Score: 5, Funny
    Join players like Dvorak and so forth in predicting: What will Apple Computers buy/do next? No qualifications are needed. In fact, they're recommended against! So, what will your speculation be? Is Apple going to...
    • buy Nintendo?
    • buy a fertilizer factory in Peru?
    • go into the soft drinks business?
    • open an on-line strip-joint and call it iBoobs?
    • start shipping marvellously good-looking military hardware?
    It's all open for speculation — 'cause in this game, there are no rules, and nobody really gives a fuck anyway!
    1. Re:The Apple Purchase/Speculation Game! by Criffer · · Score: 4, Funny

      I'd go with the "marvellously good-looking military hardware". I can't wait to get my hands on one of their iSurfaceToAirMissile (or iSam). Looks just like an iPod, can take out a stealth bomber and has a 50GB hard drive!

  6. I want to be a web writer. by supabeast! · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want to work for CNET or some similar company as a hypothetical business analyst. I want to get paid to show up for work stoned, sit down, and write random stories about how big companies could hypothetically buy each other, or release new product lines, or exit entire markets, based on nothing more than my being to stoned to write something worthwhile. Then I'll want my boss to try and pass my garbage writing off as news, and later complain when the old media, politicians, and the general public refuse to take online journalism seriously.

    I can't believe that they actually pay people to write that shit. What's worth, I can't believe how many bloggers and link aggregators keep linking to them.

  7. Thought Proccess of an Industry Analyst by tourvil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hmm, Nintendo's releasing a new console this year.

    Oh look, it's all white and shiny.

    Hey, Apple makes white and shiny things...

    OMG! Apple is going to buy out Nintendo! *hurries off to write an article*

  8. Get it right! by Infonaut · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm so confused.

    Sheesh. The incompetence around here. IBM is buying Apple. Actually, before that happens, Apple will buy Nintendo. Then IBM will buy Sun, at which point IBM/Sun/Apple/Nintendo (iSunNipple) will buy out Disney/Pixar. From there, world domination is pretty much assured, as iNippleDix will be unstoppable.

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  9. Unexplained packages by ewg · · Score: 4, Funny
    I've been wondering what some of these mystery packages are for.
    • /System/Library/Extensions/Wiimote.kext
    • /System/Library/Frameworks/GBAKit.framework
    • /System/Library/CoreServices/Encodings/libSpacePir ateConverter.dylib
    • /Developer/Applications/Utilities/RacoonSuit.app
    Not to mention this /Users/mario directory I can't seem to read...
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