Nintendo's market cap is 54.3 billion...time to buy somebody

[N64-Forever]

i would like them to buy indie devolpers like
treasure
zoonami
seeds

[nocturnalnerd]

http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/25/ninten ... r=yahootix

Uh, the corporate strategy for high market valuation is to use the captial to make a strategic acquisition of a key partner or rival. That's totally common place in America 'cept in Japan they have some honor bound cultural bias against mergers and acquistions.

Some market caps for comparrison:

Sega-Sammy - $4.8 billion
Capcom - $1.1 billion
Namco Bandai - $4.1 billion
Konami - $2.9 billion
Square Enix - $3.7 billion

Yeah, it'll never happen but one would hope that the strategic planners inside Nintendo are exploring the options.

Nintendo was worth a measly $18 billion just a year ago, btw.

Stock price falls and so does the capital.

Owning sega would be awesome. Instead of a Mariovs.Donkey Kong game for Wii, Mario vs. Sonic . I'd say why not do a crossover like the Crash/Spyro games for GBA, but I don't think Mario could handle the sonic levels. Square Enix would be the smart acquisition, the would own the Japanese market then.

[kinn]

http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/25/ninten ... r=yahootix

Uh, the corporate strategy for high market valuation is to use the captial to make a strategic acquisition of a key partner or rival. That's totally common place in America 'cept in Japan they have some honor bound cultural bias against mergers and acquistions.

Some market caps for comparrison:

Sega-Sammy - $4.8 billion
Capcom - $1.1 billion
Namco Bandai - $4.1 billion
Konami - $2.9 billion
Square Enix - $3.7 billion

Yeah, it'll never happen but one would hope that the strategic planners inside Nintendo are exploring the options.

Nintendo was worth a measly $18 billion just a year ago, btw.

Stock price falls and so does the capital.

Owning sega would be awesome. Instead of a Mariovs.Donkey Kong game for Wii, Mario vs. Sonic . I'd say why not do a crossover like the Crash/Spyro games for GBA, but I don't think Mario could handle the sonic levels. Square Enix would be the smart acquisition, the would own the Japanese market then.

Is it even possible for Sega to be seperated from Sammy now?

[nocturnalnerd]

http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/25/ninten ... r=yahootix

Uh, the corporate strategy for high market valuation is to use the captial to make a strategic acquisition of a key partner or rival. That's totally common place in America 'cept in Japan they have some honor bound cultural bias against mergers and acquistions.

Some market caps for comparrison:

Sega-Sammy - $4.8 billion
Capcom - $1.1 billion
Namco Bandai - $4.1 billion
Konami - $2.9 billion
Square Enix - $3.7 billion

Yeah, it'll never happen but one would hope that the strategic planners inside Nintendo are exploring the options.

Nintendo was worth a measly $18 billion just a year ago, btw.

Stock price falls and so does the capital.

Owning sega would be awesome. Instead of a Mariovs.Donkey Kong game for Wii, Mario vs. Sonic . I'd say why not do a crossover like the Crash/Spyro games for GBA, but I don't think Mario could handle the sonic levels. Square Enix would be the smart acquisition, the would own the Japanese market then.

Is it even possible for Sega to be seperated from Sammy now?

They could buy the whole company or make an offer for just the Sega brand.

[opethfan]

i would like them to buy indie devolpers like
treasure
zoonami
seeds

Great idea, lets take some of the few original developers and make them non-independent.



Gaming companies buying other ones isn't a good idea, especially when the larger one has their own system. It takes your weapon of choice and throws it out the window.