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| Is Gates keen on Nintendo purchase? |
| Wednesday, August 04, 2004 at 20:56 by Craig Beaumont |
When Microsoft first decided they were going to venture into the world of console gaming instead of initially deciding to produce their own hardware, they instead offered to buy Nintendo or Sega both of which were rejected. Now as Microsoft prepare the highly successful Xbox successor it seems thoughts of buying Nintendo aren't a long way in the past.
According to reports from a analyst conference in Frankfurt, Gates expressed a continuing interest in buying out the Japanese game company saying that if Hirosho Yamauchi, the former president of Nintendo and stakeholder, called he would take the call and suggested he would make an offer if Yamauchi was interesting in selling.
This would be a surprising but typical move by Microsoft , who have been keen to sign up developers for the Xbox, but a move for a competitor would be bold indeed.
Both Microsoft and Nintendo refused to be draw into speculation and declined to comment.
Nintendo have recently finalised plans for their handheld follow up to the GBA, the Nintendo DS and it would be highly surprising if Nintendo chose to sell out, especially to an American competitor.
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| Nintendo buy out Microsoft game x studios. |
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| If Microsoft can manage to buy Nintendo, more power to. But, Nintendo might not be the same... Possibly the original Nintendo titles such as Mario and Metroid will be altered in a way because of the original president of Nintendo's absence. |
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| This is simply another attempt by Microsoft to further expand their monopoly |
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| Don't do this to us Nintendo! |
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| nintendo needs to be alone, they have shown a number of great games at e3, nintendo looks like it is going to have great sucess with the nintendo ds, zelda (no title yet) (for gamecube), metroid prime 2 (gamecube), and many more of those great games coming out. If they sell them self out now that would just be dumb. |
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| I for one , suggest that Microsoft dont buy out nintendo completely. Nintendo's strength is its games and handheld platform. Microsoft has the xbox. Maybe , nintendo could join forces with microsoft on developing xbox games using nintendo franchise characters, but still retain their handheld platforms as nintendo products. This would mean instead of developing a successor for the gamecube, nintendo will develop next generation console games for the xbox2 platform instead.
Handheld gaming however, will retain nintendo's native gameboy, GBA and the DS platforms. This way, nintendo can still retain its large market share.
So, I think its best microsoft sign up nintendo as a 3rd party developer, instead of buying them out. |
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| Nintendo is a very profitable company without Microsoft and there's no reason for them to sales there very successful corporation to Microsoft. I think Microsoft wanted to crush Nintendo in this generation and prey they'll sale afterwards, but even Gates should know his comments were premature and probably offensive to the Japanese company who have always played their way and been the most innovative in the game industry. |
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| I think an aliance may be their best hope against sony, MS don't appeal to gamers in much of asia and Nintendo have been struggling to shift consoles in Europe and America, the new consoles were planning on using quite a bit of the same hardware any way (power PC cpu's and graphics from ATI IIRC)
They could do 2 different version of the next gen console, games will play on both and both could focus on what types of games they do best... would be something of an unholy alliance though
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| I think he's kidding. There's no use for Nintendo in Microsoft's gaming division, considering that they're trying to reach to completely different audiences. Xbox is going for the teen range, whereas Nintendo is going for the slightly younger kids and the adults who have owned Nintendos in the past. Plus, Nintendo will still probably experiment with another console before they give up to Microsoft's billions... |
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| there is no reason to buy nintendo because microsoft is reigning on their business, they have lots of money already. |
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