DiemetriX Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 GameSpot reported on a rumour that a secret videogames division is being set up at Apple, headed up by LucasArts' technical director Mike Lampbell. The brief of the department is rumoured to be focused on games for the iPod, but some observers ask why a heavyweight in the industry would be recruited to make iPod games in the vein of the current bat-'n'-ball titles? Online conspiracy theorists suggest that Apple is about to frag the gaming community with a revelation that could shake Microsoft to its core: Apple will buy Nintendo. What could be more quintessentially left-field Apple behaviour than buying out the US's number three games console manufacturer? Apple's market cap is $51.7bn (Nintendo's is $23.1bn), so it's got a fair bit of financial clout. If Apple wanted to buy Nintendo it could theoretically raise debt to cover the cost because it has a good credit rating. This is all based on a rumor Source: http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49276362,00.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Stefkov Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 probably a load of bull. ever since nintendo made the wii look wihe it all of a sudden was apple ipod inspired. they probably said this, but its a bit sad that some peopel will make this stuff up to please themselves, if its true then bugger me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintenchris Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 If Nintendo turned Microsoft down... why would they let Apple buy them for what would be less money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiemetriX Posted June 10, 2006 Author Share Posted June 10, 2006 If Nintendo turned Microsoft down... why would they let Apple buy them for what would be less money? Becuase Nintedo would lose their identety with MS. The don't need to lose their identety with Apple. This could be a way for both companyes to grow (proffit wise and company wise) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conzer16 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Yes I was doing some research on this rumour last night. It is just a rumour at the moment but it could be exactly what both companies need/want. Nintendo want style. Apple want video games. If Apple are considering launching into the video games market via their iPod, they would do well to wait and see how Nintendo do with the Wii. I cant see Apple launching a takeover bid before Nintendo establish themselves (if they do) with the Wii console. Also a hostile takeover is very unlikely. A mutual merger would be most likely as your quoted article also points out. It would be a very interesting development if such a merger/takeover was to materialise. ......especially for Microsoft! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Nintendo would enver sell themselves, Bullllllsheyit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
conzer16 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 A mutual merger wouldnt be selling themselves. I think if the Wii does well its a very real possibility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiemetriX Posted June 10, 2006 Author Share Posted June 10, 2006 Wii Mac A wii with Mac OS.... now that would be cool. Nintendo would enver sell themselves, Bullllllsheyit The rumor is not that Nintendo WILL be bought. The rumor is that Apple may Try buying Nintedo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jordan Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Nintendo would never sell out to an American company. Its so un-Japanese. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meo Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 You are still forgetting that old Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi owns more than half of Nintendo shares... Unless he wants to, its never going to happen. And I doubt Yamauchi wants its company to merge with other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedrocasilva Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Sure, just like a few months ago MacOS X was supposed to give windows a run for it's money running on x86... It's not gonna happen, Nintendo is not for sale... If anyone had money for that it would be Microsoft... and they tried it in the past. Nintendo is a profitable company since 1969 (uninterruptly), if anything could happen that would be a fusion, but it's highly doubtable. Nintendo has more money than Sony's division (no kidding) Nintendo held almost 900 billion yen in cash and deposits at the end of March, 30 percent larger than Sony's holdings.Source: http://www.revo-europe.com/news.php?nid=2570 This means it would come cheaper for Apple to attempt to buy Sony's gaming division than Nintendo's. My final conclusion? bogus... it's all bogus. Those sorts of paralelisms between apple and Nintendo have been around since Nintendo did a console who wasn't grey/black (back in 1994 with GB special edition), both company's inovated on design and the Wiimote was described as a "Ipod shuffle inspired" till recently. it's just plain obvious to do that association... but it's not based on a actual connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginger_Chris Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 This whole thing was started because some analyist wrote that it could happen (the links on slash dot). The article is a load of tripe, and stinks of trying to influence market prices. The author knows hardly anything aout computers, and his argument boils down to: Nintendo wii and DS are white and stylish, Apple make stylish white things OMG they are merging!!!!111!!1! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiemetriX Posted June 10, 2006 Author Share Posted June 10, 2006 Good post pedrocasilva /add pedrocasilva to Favorites Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blender Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 It is possible that there will be a strategic relationship. I can envisage Apple paying nintendo to get itunes on the wii. But this would be at a later stage and depend on the success of the wii. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero-of-Time Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I read this first thing this morning and didnt bother posting it due to it being aload of rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pedrocasilva Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Good post pedrocasilva /add pedrocasilva to Favorites thanks It is possible that there will be a strategic relationship. I can envisage Apple paying nintendo to get itunes on the wii. But this would be at a later stage and depend on the success of the wii.that would be sweet, but not necessarily exclusive to Nintendo... iTunes is a profitable service to the point where apple doesn't care where it is; we also have iTunes for windows, so why not for Xbox 360? J. Allard: I'm pro consumer on this one to the end. Anybody in my company who thought this was a bad idea to plug in Sony or Apple devices into this thing, I ended that conversation pretty quickly. This is the right thing to do for consumers. Once they invest $500 in their digital media library, you can't ask them to go buy a 360 music player and a 360 digital camera, and a 360...NO! They got their stuff. They're going to want to plug it in. We're going to be open here, guys. And if anything, I wish we could be more cooperative with the other companies that are doing those things. And if Sony or Apple were to call me up and say, "Hey, we want to some special things with the 360," I'm on it. I think it would not be in anybody's interest to say, we're not going to work with 360. It's good for them, it's good for us, and it's good for consumers. Source: http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/660/660456p3.html See, microsoft already gave them the shoulder and they have a multimedia driven machine, whereas Nintendo hasn't: DS Lite could have been a good oportunity to put in a SD card reader, or 256 MB of flash to store some mp3's, but Nintendo didn't bother; Wii will have a DVD player with optional playback (by buying a acessory to allow that). It doesn't show a change in the company's core philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcj metroid Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I hate these remours.I would say its probably true that it crossed apples mind to enter the gaming division but Saying that they would just decide to buy nintendo as if nintendo could do nothing about it is ridiculous(wow that was a long sentence) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seamus_aran Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I would love for it to happne as long as it happened in the way I would like. I mean that Apple try to keep Nintendo as a console maker, but help to develop their online ideas, make iTunes a distribution for games via the DS. A redesign for an intergrated iPod would do me as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePigMarcher Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I also think this happens to BS. Shame though as my two favourite companies working together would certainly be interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sooj Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 This rumour is nothing but a rumour however I can perhaps see Apple and Nintendo making a deal but I don't see apple merging/buying Nintendo - just won't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mario114 Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Nintendo would never sell out to an American company. Its so un-Japanese. I agree, very unlikaly to ever happen, maybe if ninty lost loads of money, and even then microsoft would probaly be the highest bidder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 I doubt Rare would make games for Nintendo ever again (or would be disallowed by Microsoft) if this happened. Bad move. I would like to see them cooperate for some sort of iPod service on the VC but not this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nintendork Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Well I'm never reading GameSpot again, biggest crock of shit I've ever heard related to computer gaming since that story about Jack Thompson having a childhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKOB Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 lmao!!! cheers for making me laugh lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zell Posted June 10, 2006 Share Posted June 10, 2006 Yeah of course mate, apple will buy nintendo, like mircrosoft are going to buy Sony and be renamed Shinra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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