Xbox boss Phil Spencer outlined his desire to buy Nintendo in a leaked email sent in 2020.
Leaked Microsoft Email Reveals Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Really Wants to Buy Nintendo -::Xbox boss Phil Spencer outlined his desire to buy Nintendo in a leaked email sent in 2020.
Is Nintendo even remotely interested in being purchased?
They’ve existed since 1889. They pretty much decided to stop following the industry and just keep doing their own thing back when the wii came out.
Something in me doubts they are strapped for cash. They own Mario, Pokemon, and a lot more. And you don’t make ridiculous consoles unless you’re in a position to gamble.
The IPs alone are gold let alone the games they make. Pokemon imo has been subpar for a while and it still prints money. Yea i dont see them selling anytime soon.
The Japanese government would not allow one of the country’s most cherished brands sold off to one of the worst stewards to gaming’s intellectual property value.
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Is Nintendo even remotely interested in being purchased?
They’ve existed since 1889. They pretty much decided to stop following the industry and just keep doing their own thing back when the wii came out.
Something in me doubts they are strapped for cash. They own Mario, Pokemon, and a lot more. And you don’t make ridiculous consoles unless you’re in a position to gamble.
The IPs alone are gold let alone the games they make. Pokemon imo has been subpar for a while and it still prints money. Yea i dont see them selling anytime soon.
Worth more than gold. Pokemon is the single highest grossing IP of ALL TIME
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
Pokémon? With the poké and the mon? https://youtu.be/_kUG-YDcLuw
I guess that clip is a little dark now that we know what Bill Cosby did to women. And we don’t even know what happened to Mortimer Ichabod Marker.
For media. I thought the highest grossing general IP was Hello Kitty.
Maybe, I found this image saying it’s still above Hello Kitty, but not sure about the validity - https://imgur.com/ZEORgkV
Nintendo has $15B in cash and the company is worth $51B.
And Microsoft has twice that cash-on-hand if they wanna get wacky with it and break some anti-trust laws that aren’t enforced anymore.
The Japanese government would not allow one of the country’s most cherished brands sold off to one of the worst stewards to gaming’s intellectual property value.
Well as a publicly traded company they are open to hostile take overs. But we have laws for that. Also japan probably has some way to stop it