Leaked Microsoft Email Reveals Xbox Boss Phil Spencer Really Wants to Buy Nintendo -
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.
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.
Y'all remember anti-trust laws? Good times
99Laws? That's for poor people!
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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.
90The 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.
48Worth 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
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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
2The emails also indicate that they know exactly how well loved they would be amongst the public for taking that route. Which is to say they'd join Unity and X for publicity fuckups of their own making.
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Quote from the article:
However, Spencer outlined a number of blocks on the merger, including the fact Nintendo seemed uninterested in selling up. Nintendo is “sitting on a big pile of cash”, Spencer said, and was apparently happy with its current position. As a result, Spencer said he couldn’t “see an angle” on a buyout in the short term, adding: “I don’t think a hostile action would be a good move… so we are playing the long game."
So its never happening and it's at best delusional. Got it.
55It’s much worse, they are buying up shares to take them over, so it’s been happening for a while.
"I say "until recently" as our former MS BoD member ValueAct has been heavily acquiring shares of Nintendo and I've kept in touch with [ValueAct CEO] Mason Morfit as he's been acquiring. It's likely he will be pushing for more from Nintendo stock which could create opportunities for us.
"Without that catalyst I don't see an angle to a near term mutually agreeable merger of Nintendo and MS and I don't think a hostile action would be a good move so we are playing the long game. But our BoD has seen the full writeup on Nintendo (and Valve) and they are fully supportive on either if opportunity arises as am I."
Weird how the OC article doesn’t even have that full quote.
30Yikes, thanks for sharing. Maybe it's time for some Nintendo shareholders to ensure it doesn't become an annoying add on for Xbox. Or not, they may just take the cheques.
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"Video games? Never played one. I play the only real game: "Gittin' That Cash." They got it, I want it."
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It’s hard to imagine a worse company to buy Nintendo than Microsoft. They don’t even use the same spot for the A button.
27Please tell me they aren’t going to strip the soul out of the last game company that is doing something different. #LeaveNintendoAlone
26What are they doing different besides suing every living being that uses their name without consent and never having a sale on 10 year old games? Lol
Edit: guess no one can take a joke. That nostalgia hits hard lol
16They don't try to put as much hardware as possible into their consoles just to allow developpers to skip the optimising part of gamedev.
They manage to make games that are fun to play without insane graphics.
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That would be the end of Nintendo.
All the MS gaming studios acquisitions often end up with MS running them into the ground sooner than later.
21Yeah, Bethesda is crashing and burning so hard right now.
It's 2023 and Nintendo is still churning out the same minimum effort bullshit Pokemon and Mario games, and they still haven't figured out online multiplayer. The max resolution of the Switch is 1080p 30 FPS. Nintendo is a joke and a shell of it's former self.
Not saying Microsoft should buy them, but someone (not Sony) needs to get in there and bring that company kicking and screaming into the 21st century.
-44It's 2023 and Nintendo is still churning out the same minimum effort bullshit Pokemon and Mario games, and they still haven't figured out online multiplayer.
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The max resolution of the Switch is 1080p 30 FPS. Nintendo is a joke and a shell of it's former self.
Yeah, I wouldn't go anywhere near that far. The N64 is the only console that was ever really top of its class in raw specs. That's never been Nintendo's game, and they've never even tried. And, the FTC leaks have shown Xbox is considered 3rd behind the Switch.
Arguably the GameCube was the most complacent and behind the times console they've ever released and it did extremely well.
The Wii started a huge "motion controls" revolution, and even if it didn't stick around, it was fresh and everyone and their mother was trying to buy a Wii.
The Wii U was probably their biggest failure. They tried to do something new and misread the market.
The Switch also brought something entirely new to the market that has redefined the portable. It sold out like crazy and has done extremely well. I know people who own switches that have never purchased any console or handheld.
The Switch isn't trying to compete with Xbox / PS. It's competing with Gameboy and PSP but also allows you to play Mario Kart with the boys. And it has built an entire new device segment with Steam Deck and a million spin offs at this point.
Local couch gameplay has always been Nintendos bread and butter. They're not aiming for hardcore gamers. And they're still succeeding at exactly that.
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Why wouldn't he, no one's stopped M$ monopoly building lately. Good luck getting Nintendo though, it's Japans Disney in regard to both local culture and high powered lawyering and suit happy executives that will jump on the chance to loose their lawyers to earn their retainer fees.
7Thpppppppt
4Yeah Sure. I Bet there are many people who want to buy Nintendo.
3I sent them an acquisition form with 5 dollars in cash, but they said no and sent me a bill for 5 more dollars.
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They probably just want the mario IP
2And that would make the Switch the last console I bother buying.
1To be clear, I hope it doesn't happen....BUT from a business perspective, it really could be amazing.
Nintendo has always focused on the fun. Forget about the latest tech and the best specs. They don't care about that, they've always focused on innovation, trying oddball things and focusing on fun games. If MS bought them, they have the pockets and know-how to do as cutting edge hardware as you can imagine.
So applying Nintendo's strengths with actually cutting edge hardware,I could see some good things getting released. Imagine a VirtuaBoy using HoloLens technology. Or a Switch 3 console that was 2x more powerful than Series X.
-10You have no idea what you're talking about. Nintendo has oodles of cash sitting around from the Wii days to do whatever they want. And you already stated the reason there isn't a Switch more powerful than the Series X: not because Nintendo doesn't have access to it, but because Nintendo doesn't care about that. More power = more time spent optimizing graphics = less time to focus on making the game fun. That's Nintendo's business model, and it works.
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Nintendo is such an unethical company that this would probably be an overall improvement for Nintendo fans. No more getting sued, copyright strikes and cease and desists just for being a fan of Nintendo games. Hell, they might even have mod support when they re-release stuff on pc. What a world that would be to live in. Do I think Microsoft is a good company? Fuck no. They're still the lesser of the two evils though, fuck Nintendo.
-18Microsoft has a history of leaving their acquisitions alone.
The only difference between a Nintendo-owned Nintendo and a Microsoft-owned Nintendo is that Microsoft would have an even larger share of the gaming landscape. I guarantee that Nintendo would still keep being protective of their intellectual property.
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