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.

  • foggy@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    90
    ·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Bluefruit@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      47
      ·
      1 year ago

      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.

      • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        11
        arrow-down
        4
        ·
        1 year ago

        Hot take: the Pokémon games have always been trash, and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc

        • PoopingCough@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          26
          ·
          1 year ago

          and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc

          I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn’t that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.

          I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it’s just out of tradition.

        • GhostsAreShitty@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          1 year ago

          I can’t remember ever enjoying a Pokémon game. I think it’s for people who get a dopamine hit from collecting.

          • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            10
            ·
            1 year ago

            For me they were always just fun little JRPGs. I usually don’t go collecting all Pokémon. I just have my roster of monsters I regularly use in fights and level up.

      • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        arrow-down
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        1 year ago

        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.

        • andysteakfries@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          22
          ·
          1 year ago

          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.

    • joel_feila@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      1 year ago

      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

      • frezik@midwest.social
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        The 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.