>MSFT looking to acquire Nintendo Co, they are going after their console market share.
>The Xbox branding will become will become a Publishing company.
You can't make this shit up:
>MSFT looking to acquire Nintendo Co, they are going after their console market share.
>The Xbox branding will become will become a Publishing company.
I hope Japan blocks this shit. Frick Microsoft.
COPE
Japan laughed in their face last time and will do it again.
Cuck
Actually I think it's extremely likely they're making this shit up. We've been over this so many times
more games for sony
I hope so, I would love double the company drone suicides.
>it's
lol. I knew Microdick copers were just making shit up. Losers always do that.
>before it's big announcement
nice try moron
It's joeover
>You can't make this shit up
you very much can
you tried, rakesh
no source, literally fake
>big announcent
Microsoft is always trying to acquire something, many Japanese companies laugh at them and arent even entertaining offers.
>defensive cope argument of the day
Lookup Microsoft being well-connected to a Mason Morfit, a former board member of Microsoft.
Lookup Mason Morfit, who is buying a ton of Nintendo shares in order to force Nintendo to expand and use up their cash reserve.
Lookup Nintendo recently having to compete with Microsoft to purchase shares in itself to retain a majority.
Lookup Nintendo concerns that they may run out of cash to maintain its majority and then become vulnerable of MS taking a controlling share.
Lookup Nintendo running out of on-hand cash which means they will then have to issue more shares to raise capital to continue operations, further diluting their board of directors controlling stake.
It’s just the basics of a hostile takeover. The next time the Nintendo executives laughs uproariously in the presence of the Xbox team, it will be all the way to the bank.
Bet.
call
Phil will not be denied his feast.
They won't. They already tried once and got laughed out of the building.
Id rather it be nationalized than let burgers run the last real gaming company into the ground.
Nintendo is sitting on a war chest for the sole purpose of stopping shit like this from happening. They'll probably scuttle the whole company before they'd let someone else take it.
>rumhours say microsoft is going bankrupt and dropping out of the console race
HAHAHA MICROSOFT BTFO NINTENDO WINS AGAIN (now in fourth place instead of fifth)
>rumhours say microsoft is buying nintendo
This is outrageous. Totally fake news. What's your source? This wouldn't happen. Japan please block.
Microsoft is more than Xbox idiot. It's a drop in the bucket compared to what they make from Windows, Office and Azure.
Go ahead, link the OP article, you disingenuous fricking Black person
So where's the URL?
You'd think people would know how to figure this shit out for themselves by now
Yeah, this guy's a writer for Eurogamer, looked at their site, this story doesn't exist.
Shove nails under your toenails and kick the wall, OP
No no no no block it Japan. Crush the serpents head! Kick Microshaft out of gaming!
>rumor
RUMOR: You can make shit up.
>then M$ sells it to Disney
>every single Nintendo princess gets replaced with girlboss minorities
It's impossible for Microsoft to buy a majority stake when it's not for sale.
Nintendo is a public company tendie, any one can buy stocks
Including Nintendo who will immediately buy all their shit back
Lol, fiduciary duty the shareholders. Tendies will get btfo
I don't think tendies will ever feel what snoys felt over the last 8 years. Nobody will ever be bullied that hard lmao
It's impossible for massreplygays to not be gays.
You down own NTDOY stock. I do.
However, I do own TENDY stock.
That's not how it works but top Nintendo employees own the majority of Nintendo stock, many Nintendo adjacent devs have said if they didn't work with or for Nintendo they would stop making game which is something Nintendo de s have said. That being said Nintendo is a historic legacy company of Japan. Any attempt of a hostile take over from Microsoft would likely result in them being blocked from dealing with the country similar to how the jap government requested steam remove their emulation promo [the ad with the Steam Deck that had a tendo emulator on it because emulation is illegal in japan] that made them remove it within a day after they just got deals to export to there. Point is there's tons of reasons this wouldn't happen anyways
morons, to buy a stock someone has to sell that stock. You cant buy majority ownership of a company unless over 50% of stock is being sold by shareholders. For that to happen microsoft must offer shitloads of money to make all those stockholders agree to sell their stock
Twitter was forced to sell to Musk, Musk didn't even want it anymore and the government forced it to happen
Nintendo is Japanese national interest though, Japanese government wouldn't go down without a fight
musk also effectively bankrupted himself buying it but the stupid bastard signed a contract and got mad he was forced to honor it
All buying Twitter did was tie his liquid assets up in an investment that won't actually sell for less than he bought it even if he did ruin it. There are too many businesses who know it's a huge marketing and PR pipeline and, despite all the bots, too many regular users to actually lose value. Sure, there are a lot of Twitter users right now who are changing their profile name to their bluesky or mastodon links to signal that they're done with Twitter, but they're just not actually using those competitors services as much as Twitter. All the doomsayers acting like Musk is actually out any value at this moment are delusional.
>that won't actually sell for less than he bought it even if he did ruin it
Don't look up Twitter's stock prices.
Elon Musk took Twatter private, its true value is pure speculation.
What is wrong with you rich celebrity worshipping homosexuals
my god the amount of tendies necking themself would be...
Holy shit where is that that place is beautiful
I wanna move somewhere like that
Portugal
But that's so far!
Also doesn't look like portugal, looks colder than that
No browns allowed. Locals only
But I am a white Australian
t.
What's your point
It's called Europe.
Frick off were full+you're brown
Clearly Switzerland
Cope, Microdick. You lost.
If this happens I'll declare war on Microsoft
Well, a majority stake would only require 34 billion or so, cheaper than Activision Blizzard.
i wonder how much nintendo stock holders would demand to sell their shares?
>kill XBox
>think they can buy Nintendo
lol
lmao even
https://www.eurogamer.net/authors/tom-phillips
Nice job moron. At least hide the name so nobody can look up the articles they wrote to make it more believable
MS never care about xbox and only focus on window market share on servers and consumers. Maybe I should add AI here.
Microsoft can't even afford Pokemon
Neither could Nintend𐐬.
Who has that smarmy email leak from the Xbox guy? Basically all but confirmed he was trying to rot Nintendo with his touch
Of course they are. They probably want Nintendo on gamepass
so it's confirmed it's snoys who completely shit up the board with shartworld spam to spite tendies? the absolute state of these trannies
Why doesn't Japan make it illegal for westerners to own stock in Japanese countries? Seems like a massive design flaw in a prosperous country.
Are you moronic or just pretending to be moronic?
China can do it but not Japan, interesting.
And that's the very reason China doesn't weight anything, and will always be a third world shithole just loosely connected to true western prosperity. Why do you think it's GDP is up there with the top dogs, but its stocks market weight is less than 10%? Why do you think it's still a "developing market" (translation : un-investable shithole). Heck, China probably weights less than 5% of the entire stocks market now, considering the sheer stupidity of Winnie the clown and how the Hang (lol) Seng never recovered from its -50%, and never will, each day it's bleeding more and more. At least it will find oil soon enough at this rate.
*companies
And you are avoiding the question, since it's clearly obvious that Japan is being destroyed by globohomosexual like the western values of Black person and gay worship.
Japan is literally collapsing from the inside out moron but historic companies are protected.
>Japan is literally collapsing from the inside out
This is something only judes from america are saying. Because of course the solution is to let in the west.
Go watch the YouTube channel let's ask shogo. Even jap gays are talking about their issues
>Japan is literally collapsing from the inside
Just like America
America is collapsing from the inside because of its own cultural values, it is a satanic degenerate country. Japan is collapsing from the outside, by those western cultural values being forced upon it.
so true. my glorious nippon is never responsible for anything.
Japan never put Black folk in every piece of media created. Japan never forced children to have drag queen story time hour. Japan never arrested parents for not giving their children HRT.
>America is collapsing from the inside because of its own cultural values
Did Vladimir Putin whisper that to you in your dreams. For frick sake. You are in for a lot of disappointment because the USA, EU and G7 (excluding the UK) are in great shape. China and Russia, South Africa and all the other near failed states, not so much. Not that there is much comparison to begin with the military, economic, diplomatic, scientific, industrial and agricultural might of the EU and the USA is so utterly massive compared to those worthless dictatorships and their lies its not even a conversation
>are in great shape
>rampant drug abuse
>50% of the population can barely afford a roof
>mass unemployment
>mass inequality
>Weimar republic levels of inflation
Yup
But enough about Russia
Based, frick these chuds. I'm ridin' with Bidin.
You can notice how the internet turned to shit after pajeets got their hands on smartphones. I mean, how could it be any other way, considering they're poojeets.
You will never get laid.
did you know that making two factions fight/neutralize eachother was a classic tactic used by israeli people to gain power over others? just thought it was interesting
Likely not to happen. They've already tried this more than one time and it always fails. Post some real frickin news.
I'd love to see this just for all the coping and seething that would occur.
This rumor has been floating around for years and every time it gets brought up, it basically can be summarized as:
Microsoft: "Can we buy you?"
Nintendo: "No."
Journalists: "GUYS LOOK MICROSOFT IS GOING TO BUY NINTENDO! IT WILL HAPPEN ANY MOMENT NOW!"
>Microsoft: "Can we buy you?"
>Nintendo: "No."
>Microsoft: “Well Nintendo, you are an odd fellow, but I must say - You Wahoo a good Bing-Bing.”
Slava Ukraini!
>make up a fake story
>publish it as a “rumor” as if it’s actual news
Rumor: Tom Phillips is going to tongue my taint and anus. You can’t prove it’s not true
It isn't shocking, they have wanted to purchase Nintendo for a long time now. It's just that no deal they made to Nintendo has ever appealed to them.
>What would you bring to the table for us to agree to selling?
>Uh...A lot of money?
>We are not in any danger of being unable to support our company. We would likely make any amount of money you would give us in only a few years time or less given our current market share. So I ask again, what would you give us that we would be unable to get ourselves with this company?
They of course, still have not been able to answer this very simple thing, as they have nothing of worth to give to Nintendo executives to make them fork over all rights.
>Norway is a major Nintendo shareholder
What the frick?
damn norwegians, trying to steal our games and our women...
>total adds up to 47.33%
so nintendo owns 52.67% of their own company
How to get the other 2.68%
Anon these are just >1% owners.
Apart from Nintendo's treasury shares the rest of those shares are up for free grabs, I really don't get how that works but I'm surprised Nintendo doesn't just consolidate the remaining 50% into their treasury.
Nintendo actually used their Switch money to buy back a lot of shares a few years back
That's what a fraction of a percent?
literal clickbait
They tried back in 2000. Nintendo laughed in their faces.
And that was back then, before the Switch lets them print money.
They've tried this numerous times and Nintendo literally laughs them out of the office.
please let this be true. Ganker will be unusable for a month and I might actually get work done.
Microsoft can't even last 4 console generations, how badly would they frick up Nintendo if they owned it?
The Zaibatsu will not allow it
>it's big announcent
Sir
>Microsoft is dying, only Nintendo and Sony will rema-ACK
AIEEEEEEEEEE TENDIE BROS!
YOU'RE NEXT!
Hey anon, someone wrote 'Gullible' on your ceiling.
Imagine them adding a battlepass and cash shop and shit to smash bros and mario kart
Yeah, just what we need
Microsoft to drive more game franchises into the ground by appointing women in charge of everything
Microsoft has trillion dollar market cap. Nintendo executives would see a windfall after they close the sale. They can easily turn around and start a new electronic company and would be free to enter the market with a fresh start and with ideas swirling in their head with innovations that were held back because of their culture. This can turn into a great thing for them... And for us.
Let it happen.
I am going to stop playing video games if they turn Link into debra wilson
Sony is already doing that for the film, basically expect Hyrule to be super diverse.
Former management and important roles (Miyamoto etc) typically need to sign non-compete agreements during any acquisition if they're not contractually obligated to stay aboard
>96 replies
If anyone bothered to do even a basic search they'd quickly realize the article doesn't exist.
does a self-identified "rumor" really require a search? the presence of the article wouldn't make me weigh it any more favorably
we should just sell nintendo to ms, i've had enough of them
Nintendo will refuse will refuse
t.
Why the frick did MS even enter the market, convince all you idiots to pay money for what was free, then decide to leave and buy nintendo? This shit is moronic.
Whats insane is how all review sites have done nothing for 20 years but sucks MS's and Nintendo's dick.
Theres always been favoritism in the industry, but it was tolerable when the market was smaller. It's been insane since the Xbox 360 released.
Sega, please. Please help. I just want games that are fun. I want arcade games.
What alternate universe are you living in? Gaming media is practically an extension of sony's marketing department.
>still crying about xbox live not being free 20 years later
ultra moron
Nintendo is one of the pre-war legacy companies protected from outside acquisition by Japanese law, having been founded in 1889.
https://mergers.whitecase.com/highlights/in-japan-resistance-to-hostile-takeovers-fades
That used to be true before 2021. Not anymore.
>"domestic"
Do you even know how to read anon?
If you don't know how stocks work, maybe you should shut up.
oh boy, is it time for another 'x is going to buy y!!!!!!!' thread? i love these
HOLY SHIT DISNEY IS GOING TO BUY THE POKEMON COMPANY?
TENCENT SLATED TO BUY SEGA?
MICROSOFT IN DISCUSSION WITH BANDAI NAMCO????????? POSSIBLE ACQUISITION OF FROMSOFT???
Snoy ackquiring Fromsoft would actually be an error
Half their games being multiplats just gets more people into them and more willing to switch to Sony
arent there protectionist laws that prevent that?
Yes. But Nintendo would never agree to it anyway.
Is it just me or do the snoylets seem more unhinged than usual?
So you fricks forgot about this already huh.
https://nintendoeverything.com/nintendo-says-it-doesnt-have-anti-takeover-measures-but-has-systems-in-place-against-it/
>it's big announcent
They aren't going to do anything too crazy after the ABK deal. They kind of got burned on that one since they had to make concessions outside the US and it took like 2 years to actually close. Meanwhile, the entire brand stagnated and they really couldn't do much else. I think that and Starfield flopping is why they are getting out of the console business and probably downsizing their gaming side overall. Buy stake in Nintendo? Sure. A lot of companies do capital investments in each other. But they wont outright buy them. I think they may try to sell Rare back to Nintendo though
>that spoiler
Primus I hope.
That'd be hilarious if that spoiled happened.
What kind of IPs would Nintendo pick up if they were offered some from Microsoft, if they could?
The Rare catalog. Thats about it.
As other anon said, it would be for Rare's IPs. There are other benefits too such as their experience making games Nintendo can't (Traditional Fighting and Shooting) and could serve as a support studio like Monolith Soft does. As for Microsoft, they are probably right sizing so there will be some sell offs and closures.
Nobody from the old rare is there anymore. Rare now is worth less than Monolith or Retro
>Todd killed Xbox
he's too powerful
Crashing these games with no survivors
They aren't going after Nintendo you fricking idiot they're busy pulling out of the console wars *right now*.
Get ready for the absolute heaviest hits of copium you are about to see in your entire lives as a tech giant for 20 years pulls out of the console wars. There may well not *be* any consoles that aren't Nintendo handhelds in the next five-ten years.
They couldnt afford nintendo.
>3 trillion vs 60 billion market cap
They can
lol if you think that's how spending works they would never get approval to spend more than 60bil on another studio after just wasting so much already
That's literally how it works, they could literally ask Citi Bank for a 60 billion loan, and they have 3 trillion to back it up
Imagine if MS actually managed buy Nintendo. It would truly be a disaster.
The seething would be hilarious tho
Don't worry, its only a pipe dream.
Nintendo is way bigger in the gaming industry than Microshit, Microshit legit doesn't have enough money to buy Nintendo without seriously defunding their other businesses like phones and computers, this kind of moronic billshit crops up frm time to time, last time it was Disney, Nintendo always tells them to eat shit and die.
That, and they just spent billions getting ActiBlizz. I doubt they're up for another huge acquisition right now, or for a good while.
Ignoring the anti-trust laws, laws that prevent US companies from buying Japanese ones, and Nintendo laughing in their face back in 2000.
>after the Democrats allow (read force) Microsoft to buy Nintendo, japan cuts it's alliance to the west and joins the brics
Merica doesn't stand a chance on the Pacific, it's ogre, China takes Taiwan literally the next day Microsoft buys Nintendo
Saudis already own like 8% of Nintendo
>MS acquires Nintendo
>goes multiplatform
>Nintendo games on PC
>implying every Nintendo game isn't already on pc
Get ready for that to change with the Switch 2's specs, lad, you ain't emulating something PS4-tier and on an undocumented chip any time soon.
Anon, a 1660ti is ps4 tier. The magic about Nintendo emulation is that they are always 1-2 gens behind.
I have a fricking 1050 with 2 gb of vram and emulate Switch games at 60 fps.
Show me those 60 frames on Hyrule Warriors with your hardware, I'm waiting :^)
And despite the 1660ti being PS4 tier it doesn't mean you can do it until heavy perfect optimizations on the emulator and for that multiple geniuses would have to work on that emulator for FREE
Realistically you're going to need 5x-10x stronger because good luck finding those geniuses who will work for free
>he actually think he's getting ps4 tier HW on the go
>HW by fricking Nintendo
>thread titled "You can't make this shit up"
>look inside
>it's made up
>ninteneo
>no frick you
>you rike !?
>spreading misinformation
You have yet to post a source for this
I know Phil is a real gamer unlike many CEOs and that the console war has been over for a while now, but it doesn't make sense for them to abandon exclusivity altogether not even a year into the Activision Blizzard deal. Even then why the frick would they ever attempt the Nintendo deal again only to go "thrid party"
Three companies competing with each other was the perfect balance. The perspective is very grim and japanese companies competing with each other is a hellscape of low effort bullshit as it was in the 90s.
That being said, if microsoft pulls out I hope another US company takes the void. Valve has been toying with it for two decades, I hope they make a console.
You guys keep saying this but valve still only sell steam decks for few countries. I can't buy one because they won't ship to me. They don't have the same power nintendo or sony does. Maybe an Apple can do it but it will probably be worse than Microsoft.
It’s the only one who comes to mind because they been practicing for so long. For all we know they probably saw this coming and the Steam Deck is practice. They have the playerbase they have the knowledge and they can make it happen.
Apple irks me. Unless they pull a rabbit out of a hat and a possible iConsole does not suck a bag of dicks, perhaps? They do have the ecosystem and they been trying to break into the triple A space. They need a new OS. Their loyalists would pretty much guarantee whatever product they put out there would sell like hot cakes. Steve Jobs could pull this off but not Tim Apple I think
rumor colon
Again?
They tried it back on the 2000's
Gobble up Nintendo... before next week? The frick is this guy on?
Anyway even if this was real I'd give them about 0% chance of success. In fact, didn't they suggest this a while back to Nintendo and they laughed at them like it was genuinely a joke?
Just to shed a bit of light in this legend: The microsoft buying nintendo stuff was back in the late 90s. Microsoft was not the behemoth it is today and they wanted Mario in the first Xbox. They tried to partner up with Sega instead.
Not saying that they will buy Nintendo today, or that they should, but they definitely can. Nintendo exists solely in the video game industry and if you have short term memory, they are only one blunder away from opening up their war chest. Remember the 3DS/WiiU days, Satoru Iwata had to take a pay cut and died thinking he ruined his company. They were betting everything on the Switch being the massive hit that it is, but it wasn’t a breeze. They needed a new Wii/DS bad on the switch, and up to this day its a bit debatable. They are not as wienery as they were, or else we would’ve got a switch successor a year ago.
>was back in the late 90s. Microsoft was not the behemoth it is today
Microsoft was quite literally the single biggest corporation in the world
Zoomers literally think businesses didn't care about profit 30 years ago. The 90's are like the Stone Age to them.
the article is fake anyway
>they are only one blunder away from opening up their war chest.
You’re moronic. They could release 5 more Wii Us. Mario movie, theme park, merchandise, I can keep going.
> Microsoft was not the behemoth it is today
When were you born?
>Microsoft was not the behemoth it is today
zoom zoom
what the frick does a publishing company even do the developers make the games
Microcucks are MOVING
Do they need to obliterate the industry by the end of the fiscal quarter or something?
It's not for sale.
pic rel the real story
usually these edits are lazy so you can just google the date and author
https://www.eurogamer.net/microsoft-mulls-major-xbox-exclusives-starfield-indiana-jones-for-playstation-5-reports
>Rumour
We've seen this narrative posted by journos for years. You can make this up
Literally a fake article. It does not exist.
They couldn't afford it.
>buy Activision blizzard
>promise to not fire everyone
>fire everyone
>plan to close xbox
>want to buy Nintendo ...
Well, Nintendo IS a public company now. I'd like to see them owned by incompetent americans and go the way of the dodo. Frick Nintendo. Frick Japan and above all, frick (You).
Eat the business end of a shotgun and pull the trigger dipshit
They make this exact kind of shit up all the time, you moron.
You CAN make this shit up, because it's a fricking rumour. Jesus christ.
Haven't they tried at least twice already? Once officially and once by proxy?
Looking forward to Gay Bowser's coming out party.
The Mushroom Kingdom needs to be blacker. Microsoft can make that happen.
What's wrong tendies? I thought you had an alliance with MSXisters against the evil snoy?
>nooooooooo! Not Like this! Nippon aniki pls herpu
HAHAHAHAHA
>Falling for a fake article
What would happen if the rumors were true and Microsoft XboxP3 decided to bring all big Xbox 1st party to PS5?
Here's my response:
1. All long-time Xbox owners would be at a huge disadvantage and would be treated as lower-class citizens by MS. Since Xbox can't play Final Fantasy, Spiderman, Stellar Blade, etc but PS players can play all those and would also play Xbox 1st party games
After so many years waiting for consistent delvery of great exclusives, and enduring hate from PSfaboys and media, Xbox players would feel betrayed and fooled.
2. Millions of players would abandon the Xbox ecosystem and move to PS because they could play games from both companies
3. MS would suffer significant loss from all those players who currently pay for Xbox Live and Gamepass
4. A few extra sales of games on PS can't compare to monthly revenue from Xbox Live/Gamepass and there's no guarantee Xbox 1st party would make good enough sales on PS
(COD on PS and Candy Crush on Mobile already make 100 times more money for MS than any Xbox 1st party would make on PS)
5. This would result in MS fully abandoning the Xbox console, since players would have no advantage from it (Gamepass is also on PC)
6. Playstation would become a high-performance console MONOPOLY. which would make Sony even more anti-consumer, raising consoles to $1000 and games to $150 with players having no other option
7. The consequences of such a terrible (and unnecessary) decision from MS would be disastrous for ALL gamers.
Nobody wants this, except PSzealots and PSfaboy media.
What I would do:
I would just move away from Xbox
fake article
I hope you used chatgpt to type all that
Are they going to be laughed out of the room again?
Xbro, it's over. Microsoft is going third party...
they trying to get laughed out the room again or something?
Actually, you can, in fact, make this shit up. They just did. For the billionth fricking time: Nintendo will never sell to an American company. Ever. The fact that you mongoloids eat this bullshit up just shows you have absolutely zero understanding of even the tiniest part of Japanese culture and tradition.