There’s no way it would happen, even if the stars aligned for Microsoft. Regulators in the EU and (hopefully) US would not allow the 2 of the only 3 console makers to combine. Plus Japan would not settle for a non-Japanese company buying a Japanese company that is such a big part of their culture.
They already tried to acquire them once and were laughed out of the meeting.
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-wanted-to-buy-nintendo-145746874.html
Sure, buying Nintendo would be a win for Microsoft, but Nintendo would gain absolutely nothing from the deal. Sure, there are people like myself who loudly and rightfully complain about Nintendo’s business practices, but at the end of the day, it took until THIS year for Playstation 5 to finally outsell them in a single year, and they’re not even CLOSE to matching total unit sales, and Xbox is doing worse than THAT. Add to that Nintendo’s software attach rate, and as much as I don’t like HOW they do their business, they’re WILDLY successful at it and making more money as a function of their costs than anyone else in the industry, so they can’t be faulted for continuing to do what is working.
I honestly don’t know what Phil Spencer thinks would be different than the previous meeting in another sales proposal today, especially given Microsoft’s INCREDIBLY weakened industry market position compared to Nintendo’s. Microsoft is only able to approach the idea from a position of power based on its market capitalization funded by its other businesses - in the gaming industry, Nintendo simply occupies the more advantageous market position.
I don’t really like Nintendo’s stuff that much, but really, that would be a bad outcome for the gaming industry as a whole.
Microsoft will just turn Nintendo into another dumb acquisition and the timeless quality of the Nintendo games would be lost forever.
How dumb is a person to define a “career moment” as buying something.
Aren’t careers are suppoed to be about creating things that other people want to buy.
Not very. Negotiating and executing a deal of that size and complexity cross cutting major national, cultural, and business universes would be extremely difficult
That’s his goal. His plan is to bolster xbox sales with Nintendo IPs.
Shatter this corporation.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would really like to buy Nintendo someday.
The emails were revealed as part of a tranche of leaked documents from the FTC v. Microsoft lawsuit.
One executive, Takeshi Numoto, asked Spencer and Chris Capossela in an email titled “random thought” about why Microsoft isn’t finding acquisition targets like Nintendo a “more attractive” way to “increase our consumer exposure and relevance.” (At the time, Microsoft was in discussions to acquire TikTok, and Numoto didn’t feel it would be the best match.)
He added that Microsoft’s board of directors “has seen the full writeup on Nintendo (and Valve) and they are fully supportive on either if opportunity arises as am I.” Spencer also shared that the company was in “fairly active M&A discussions” around ZeniMax Media (which resulted in a deal that was announced a month later) and Warner Brothers Interactive (which did not go through).
Previous documents from the case revealed that Microsoft has considered acquiring many other studios, including Bungie (now owned by Sony), Sega, and Square Enix.
This most recent batch of documents leaked a new design for the Xbox Series X and some unannounced games from Bethesda.
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Please do it.
Ninendo is better at anyone’s hands but Nintendo’s.
Microsoft wouldn’t run Nintendo. They buy shit up and let it die a slow death… Poor old Skype, Minecraft and Nokia can testify among many other.
I can absolutely confirm Nokia.
I do know lots of people who do still use Skype though, and about Minecraft, you just need to go to Youtube to see that it’s still pretty active.
Ah yes, more monopolization please. That sure worked out great every time we tried it
At least it would be TRYING to have more reach to consumers.
Nintendo’s strategy of only appealing to kids and only sometimes caring about it’s actual, much larger fanbase isn’t really economically estrategic if you think about it.
Seems to work reasonably well for them considering they have been in gaming much longer than Microsoft.
Because they sell their products at overpriced numbers and their current console is built on 8 year old hardware that even it’s chip makers said it was “outdated” back in 2015.
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So like the vast majority of PCs still run on 1060 instead of whatever the latest shit is? Sounds pretty reasonable, especially if you want mobile gaming.
I personally run on a GTX 750 Ti and a Core 2 Duo myself. 🧐
But i’ll admit that i’m a maniac who uses a dedicated sound card 🎵 and a gold rated 550W power supply for max performance.
