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[Pedro Motta]

Is the author of this article fucking retarded?

 

[Drell]

I hope Microsoft buy Nintendo, can't wait for Pokemon with 100 of 150 Pokemon at launch.

I hope Microsoft buy Nintendo, then big talents leave Nintendo to found another game company and Microsoft is just there with the IPs clueless about how to make a good game alone.

 

[I Love Rock 'n' Roll]

That’s why US should sell Apple, Google, MS, Amazon, Meta, EA, Take 2 to EU or to Japan! Just proove you have balls!

 

[Hypereides]

What a ridiculous article. I can just imagine the lobbyists who are rubbing their hands in glee at the thought about getting their influence into Nintendo's output. Nintendo's core culture and heritage would get compromised by western investment managers/bankers.

This article reeks of some kind of manipulative intent.

 

[nani17]

Did Phil pay for this bs

 

[Embearded]

I can also write an article:

Why financial times journalists should sell hot dogs instead of writing articles.

 

[Fabieter]

Human greed is endless. No there is no need for japan to sell nintendo. And everyone arguing can't be taken seriously.

 

[Diddy X]

I picture all nintendo nerds in this thread like this



I hope MS buys Nintendo and you all die in anger

 

[Tommi84]

How bout big FAT NOOOO?

 

[gaming_again]

Is the author of this article fucking retarded?

The FT has been abysmal for a few years now. It staggers me that it’s still taken seriously.

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

This is the most American thing ive read in a while

 

[Silver Wattle]

 

[Skifi28]

Buy Nintendo, fire everybody there and replace them with purple haired Americans. The next Mario game will be quite interesting.

 

[Tomeru]

Reads like some fan fiction.

 

[Jinzo Prime]

That’s why US should sell Apple, Google, MS, Amazon, Meta, EA, Take 2 to EU or to Japan! Just proove you have balls!

Same fucking logic, "let's sell our world-defining companies to shake things up today! We need some shock therapy!" Like who would ever think that? Fucking hypocrites!

 

[ulantan]

You don't get get it Microsoft needs to buy Nintendo to save Japan...it's the only move the country has left lmfao

 

[supernova8]

not least because it might convince consolidation-resistant Japanese companies to seek scale and protection through mergers.

Lol fucking what mate Japan has so many monopolies and oligopolies. There's hardly any genuine competition because almost every industry is controlled by two or three equally gigantic companies.

There's been so much bid-rigging, price-fixing, emissions faking shit coming out of Japan in the last year or so, which is precisely because they're all essentially working together to shaft the consumer. Fuck them all.

 

[Three]

The financial times is really cosying up with the megacorp I see. First the ABK coverage now this.

 

[Yoboman]

This would be a career moment for Japan

 

[Three]

I don't get the argument here. That Nintendo's shareholders should push for Nintendo to seek an acquisition, because it might benefit Japan's stock market as a whole?

No, for a an "intellectual experiment" obviously. Much like the "thought experiment" businessmen love dabbling in philosophy.

 

[balls of snow]

Is Leo Lewis Phil Spencer's alter ego. Ceo xbox by day, shill articles by night.
They are seeding the idea btw so that when ms make the hostile takeover, the evangelising can begin in earnest.

 

[Horseganador]

In a year, Switch 2 will be released with Metroid Prime 4, Mario Kart 9, etc... and it will succeed again, they don't need to be bought.

 

[Banjo64]

In a year, Switch 2 will be released with Metroid Prime 4, Mario Kart 9, etc... and it will succeed again, they don't need to be bought.

Fink of the shareholders tho!!1

 

[harry mason 1989]

I will be done with videogames if this shit happen
Nintendo is the only company that still not infected with the woke virus

 

[Thief1987]

Nintendo is the only company that still not infected with the woke virus

Far from it, don't be ridiculous in your fanboying

 

[Dice]

Looks how thirsty they get after the success of the Mario movie.

 

[Clear]

It kinda makes sense from an investor standpoint I suppose as it would provide additional ways for them to make money by making the stock price balloon. But in every other aspect... just no.

The real truth is that Nintendo's enduring success is a stark reminder of MS' failures in gaming despite expending ungodly amounts of cash to try and buy market leadership.

 

[skit_data]

 

[mansoor1980]

=

 

[Aion002]

Soooo... Least popular video game company should buy the most popular video game company because they can and it will be good for "everybody"?

 

[old-parts]

The likes of MS, Disney or Apple would run Nintendo into the ground.

Thats what the author of this article doesn't understand and thinks that American mega corps would automatically be good stewards of Nintendo and wouldn't fundamentally alter the work culture of Nintendo (they would).

 

[Thirty7ven]

Fucking hell is up with these people man. Bet you if PlayStation and Nintendo announced a merger they would backtrack this shit fucking idea quick because reasons.

 

[Bojanglez]

At this point the FT is just a Microsoft astroturfing publication.

 

[Woopah]

The likes of MS, Disney or Apple would run Nintendo into the ground.

Thats what the author of this article doesn't understand and thinks that American mega corps would automatically be good stewards of Nintendo and wouldn't fundamentally alter the work culture of Nintendo (they would).

From what I can see in the article, there's no argument from the author that this would be good for Nintendo or that a megacorp would be a good steward.

It's just "shocking thing should happen because Japan stock market needs a shock". The impact on Nintendo isn't discussed.

 

[T-0800]

You were supposed to replace Sega. Not buy everyone else and destroy them.

 

[Boss Mog]

This sounds like a write-up by some delusional fanboy. There's literally laws in Japan that prevent big Japanese companies from being bought by foreign companies.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Leave it the fuck alone

 

[crackajack]

Some capitalist wankers really have a hard on for megacorps, mergers and ruling the world, loving that idea of "creating" "value" through those weird wall street monopoly theater, which usually ends up in bankrupt corporate identities and lost jobs, so any sane regular person and also goverments that is not entirely corrupt (lobbied to death) should oppose that game of the upper echelons of finance.

 

[Kokoloko85]

How much are Phil and Nadella paying this guy?
A year ago this wouldn't have been so hilariously obvious and I would of been told I have to proof it. Suck it

 

[Lunarorbit]

What a dumb article. Seriously.

I thought this was the financial times? Almost no analysis, just guessing that the deal would be transformative and maybe other businesses would sell in Japan to outsiders.

Divorced from reality. So all those high quality brands from Japan I buy like Mikata and Honda motors for small equipment would be totally destroyed. Good idea

 

[digoutyoursoul]

Buy Nintendo, fire everybody there and replace them with purple haired Americans. The next Mario game will be quite interesting.

Have you ever considered writing a horror film screenplay?

 

[Kumomeme]

people did paid just to read this kind quality of opinion?

this also reeks of another 'agenda'

 

[StealthGoblin]

Didn't expect the financial times to be astroturfing for Microsoft.

 

[dotnotbot]

Buy Nintendo, fire everybody there and replace them with purple haired Americans. The next Mario game will be quite interesting.

Next Maria game you mean

 

[TheUsual]

Sounds like a fan fic that got published and written by @Colteastwood over on X

 

[MagnesD3]

Souless Business Men can burn in hell honestly.

 

[MetalFreak]

Errrmmm... NO!

 

[Roni]

This sounds desperate as fuck... Jesus. Astroturfing is becoming a way of life for internet journalists content creators.

 

[TheSHEEEP]

That has to be the most insanely 'Murican Financial take I've read in a while.