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

Re:Stupid.

[Umbral Blot]

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

Huh?

[MuckSavage]

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.

whatever

[aleksiel]

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

The Apple Purchase/Speculation Game!

[ettlz]

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!

Thought Proccess of an Industry Analyst

[tourvil]

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*

Get it right!

[Infonaut]

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.