Analyst Injects Dose of Reality into Apple-Nintendo Merger Rumor

There's been a lot of talk lately about the possibility of Apple looking into buying Nintendo. It started when CNET posted a rumor-based story and took off from there, but what are the chances of this kind of merger actually happening? We speak with David Cole, president of DFC Intelligence.

The usually informative folks over at CNET have recently posted an extremely speculative piece on the possibility of a friendly takeover of Nintendo by Apple. "What could be more quintessentially left-field Apple behaviour than buying out the US's number three games console manufacturer?" asks author Chris Stevens.

[Sphinx]

...or merge... or even Apple come in as a fourth contender in the videogames war.

[DG]

both have the same ideology so it makes sense. What Im interested is to see a great video game company combined with a company that makes the most powerfull consumer pcs on the market throw the two in a mixer and see what happends.

[OutLaw]

I rather see MS merge with Nintendo.

[DG]

Dont think it would work...too many egos clashing.

[Lucidmantra]

MS actually thought about BUYING Nintendo outright during the planning for Xbox360. But they decided not to do it because even though they would get a huge boost in Japan they felt it wouldn't be worth the money.

[Lostboy]

If Microsoft merged or bought Nintendo, it would bee the biggest tragedy in history. Lucifer buying the gates of heaven.

[MoonDust]

MSFT has been trying to buy Nintendo for a long time now.

[DG]

But would Nintendo sell to MS? I dont think so?

[shotty]

Everyone has a price even sony. Too bad nobody wants to buy sony. Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo and Nintendo said no to everyone. I guess microsoft and apple are still courting nintendo. It would be funny if apple bought nintendo and then microsoft bought apple. Microsoft did save apple in 1997 when Bill Gates gave a couple hundred million to apple.

[kingboy]

lol if it happends then i`ll like to see microsoft leave..stick to pc and leave their place to sega

[Lucidmantra]

What the hell does Sega have to do with any of this? Anyone dumb enough to compare Microsoft to Sega needs to have their IP banned immediately. The xbox is a freaking writeoff to what Microsoft makes and is worth. They aren't writing big billion dollar checks to make a 7 SPE cluster that only performs 25% better than a triple core IBM CPU they had laying around already almost toattally developed and ready to go. Dang bro... You need to read something besides the funny pages.

[Lostboy]

I don't even want them in the pc market. Windoze bites my shiny metal ass. Get Linux

[PS360PCROCKS]

huh this would be odd, but ok...why would a game company be bought by an electronics company, what can apple help Nintendo with? A built in IPOD?

[shotty]

You can say the same thing about Microsoft and they created a fantasic product. Apple and Nintendo have similiar looking products aswell.

[OutLaw]

MS created the xbox from scrap and did homework on how to make a system. Apple on the other hand has no experience in the game market. Just buying a company doesn't guarantee you will be successful in that field. They would have to get their feet wet before I would buy a game system from them.

[Lucidmantra]

WiiPod? PiiPod?

It makes no sense really APple has shunned gaming and gamers and game makers have always viewed them as a productivity machine not for gaming. Oddly Bungie was one of the few that actually made DECENT games for anything Apple put out but they are with Microsoft now.

[Schmitty07]

Don't ruin Nintendo.

[PS360PCROCKS]

No MS has done alot with game technology prior to the Xbox, just computer stuff.

[OutLaw]

Imagine Sony buying them. Unlike MS who would welcome them and Japan. Sony would purchase them to make sure that the PS3 is the only console on Japanese gamers mind and the Wii would be nothing more than a memory. Nintendo would just make games and thats it.

[Lucidmantra]

I think hardware is secondary to them anyways they always design their hardware around what they want to do to differentiate themselves from the more mainstream hardcore and midhardcore gaming demographic Sony and MS are battling over. Nintendo want to remain cuddly and cute and for the family.