Well, both Apple and Nintendo are starting to have similar designs, but that's Nintendo trying to ride wave that Apple created with it's design team. Even though, Apple is looking for people with experiance in making games and similar, and doing something with Nintendo might not be out of the question. Nintendo has it's own ideas for the Wii and the DS, they have a number of good and great games franchises available to them. But the main problem is, the XBox 360 is a multimedia machine that allows you to view content from your PC on your TV through a network connection. It's also possible that Sony might try to do something similar with their Playstation 3.
Now consider this, iTunes is the majority in the online music distribution buisiness. It sells TV shows also for it's iPods. My best guess is that more than Apple buying out Nintendo, Apple and Nintendo might do a project to merge certain media center type functions among the console and Macs. Front row is a clean interface which could be made to be used by the Wii. Apple already has Zeroconf networking integrated in it's software and products. It's a good chance that the Wii could become something like a "Video Airport Express" for homes. Also, even though it doesn't support high resolutions, the video output of the Wii is high enough that maybe in the future Apple could set up a Movie sales system like it has done on iTunes with TV shows. At that point, I'd say that the Wii would drive Mac sales, and vice-versa.
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Well, both Apple and Nintendo are starting to have similar designs, but that's Nintendo trying to ride wave that Apple created with it's design team. Even though, Apple is looking for people with experiance in making games and similar, and doing something with Nintendo might not be out of the question. Nintendo has it's own ideas for the Wii and the DS, they have a number of good and great games franchises available to them. But the main problem is, the XBox 360 is a multimedia machine that allows you to view content from your PC on your TV through a network connection. It's also possible that Sony might try to do something similar with their Playstation 3.
Now consider this, iTunes is the majority in the online music distribution buisiness. It sells TV shows also for it's iPods. My best guess is that more than Apple buying out Nintendo, Apple and Nintendo might do a project to merge certain media center type functions among the console and Macs. Front row is a clean interface which could be made to be used by the Wii. Apple already has Zeroconf networking integrated in it's software and products. It's a good chance that the Wii could become something like a "Video Airport Express" for homes. Also, even though it doesn't support high resolutions, the video output of the Wii is high enough that maybe in the future Apple could set up a Movie sales system like it has done on iTunes with TV shows. At that point, I'd say that the Wii would drive Mac sales, and vice-versa.