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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. That's umpossible! by moochfish · · Score: -1, Troll

    Dude, this rumor can't possibly be true because I was already planning on buying Nintendo.

  2. Re:Huh? by MemoryDragon · · Score: 1, Troll

    Hasnt apple been going bankrupt since 1986... (and being proud of it)

  3. Nintendo? by Billosaur · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does anyone still play that?

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  4. Re:Stupid. by DaSenator · · Score: -1, Troll

    Agreed, but for different reasons. I love Nintendo products, and have grown to hate anything from Apple for various reasons (maybe the fact that I've gone through 9 iPuds {intentional misspelling} in a year and a half, not due to user error in any part) :-P . If Nintendo could be bought out by Apple, I would most certainly never buy another Nintendo product again, given Apple's success in first-gen products.

    Of course, this all is dependent on the truthiness of the article, which I sincerely doubt.

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  5. Would kill them in the Japanese market by elrous0 · · Score: -1, Troll
    Right now Nintendo is poised to possibly dominate the Japanese market with the Wii, the first challenge Sony has faced there in a long time. The *worst* move they could make would be to let themselves be bought out by an American company.

    Why? It's simple: The Japanese are notoriously racist and nationalistic. Japanese consumers only buy from Japanese companies (unless there is absolutely no other alternative). It's a sad but true fact of doing business there (and one MS obviously didn't heed, leading to their embarrassing failed attempt to popularize the 360 there).

    Apple buying Nintendo would give Sony just the opening they need to wipe out the Wii in Japan and continue their dominance there. It would be a lose-lose situation for both Apple AND Nintendo.

    -Eric

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  6. Re:OT: such and such are better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Sure, he may sound like an ass for that in America, but then again, doesn't pretty much everyone sound like that down there?