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Business - BootsLoader Times - Why America should shut down Financial times and how it should benefit the country getting rid of dumb posts like the one with Nintendo.

 

[8BiTw0LF]

Financial Times and Microsoft:

 

[JohnnyFootball]

After this "bounce back" year for MS Xbox.

Redfall - awful
Starfield - below mediocre
Forza - Redfall with cars

And they want to send more successful studios and developers there to die?

Just no.

This has got to stop now, not be pushed harder. MS are not positive for this industry. They've given up trying to make quality products at all.

This article should be a demand for MS getting out of gaming, not buying up more of it.

Yep. History shows that MS is more likely to run studios and franchises into the ground than prop them up. The fact that they continue to allow incompetent morons like Matt Booty keep their job is beyond me.

I'm likely wrong (and many will tell me this), but I believe that Starfield will eventually get released on PS5 after MS realizes that Starfield barely moved the needle in terms of getting new subscribers for Gamepass and/or console sales. It's too early too tell what the actual effect Starfield has on Xbox, but so far I have seen no indication that it has moved the needle. If it had, MS would be screaming through the rooftops. So far, the best PR has been "player counts".

 

[Calling 911 Melts Beams]

Posting paywall articles is theft btw

 

[Metnut]

Nice try Phil!

 

[Kilau]

I don’t think even another Japanese company could buy Nintendo and keep the culture the same.

 

[GHG]

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

They've been at it throughout the whole regulatory process for the Activision deal. Microsoft will have given them inordinate amounts of cash for advertising and "extras".

https://preview.redd.it/according-to-financial-times-uk-tech-scene-raises-alarm-v0-o3z308v9qowa1.png?width=709&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb32c0d14937393900dddb2dad1e1f044382f392

www.reddit.com

 

[Unknown?]

This screams payrolled by MS.

 

[Arcadialane]

Nintendo characters now:

The same Nintendo characters after being owned by a western company:

 

[DosGamer]

The more I think about this view, the more I think its impossible. I dont think they could afford Nintendo. All of the intellectual properties alone would have to be included such as Mario and Zelda... otherwise its a loss....

But no way can you just buy all of that ... it would be worth literally hundreds of billions and up....

 

[VolticArchangel]

But the greater reason is that Japan may itself need the sort of moment that it foisted on the US in 1989 when Sony bought Columbia Pictures.

Did this MF really say that Japan needs it's career moment or am I tripping?

Come out of your journalist smurf account, PhilTheGamer™, you clown. LMFAOOOOOO

 

[HerjansEagleFeeder]

This must be one of the dumbest takes I've read this month so far. And it didn't even come from NeoGAF.

 

[TheUsual]

Give Nintendo IP to those who want to cater to "modern audiences". Hell no and stay the fuck away. Look at our current sea of endless mindrot garbage and thats what they will do to Nintendo.

 

[Fake]

Western is the joke of the generation. Never a rational opinion. Is quite embarrassing.

 

[GrayChild]

We already saw what happened when the Playstation brand ended up being managed by westerners. Fuck no!

 

[Sanepar]

I can really suspect who is paying for this article.

 

[Brigandier]

Felt like I was reading a Facebook comment reading that shit...

 

[Mung]

Love these ridiculous FT hot takes

 

[clarky]

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

It'll be full of rainbows and wonder..........oh wait

 

[fersnake]

love this threads, insta lol reaction

 

[Cyberpunkd]

The more I think about this view, the more I think its impossible. I dont think they could afford Nintendo.

Nintendo has a market cap of $50 billion, which is lower than what Microsoft is paying for ABK (which as of right now stands at $75 billion). So yes, they could buy them if allowed. But they won't be. In general even after decades Americans are clueless about doing business in other countries as evidences by Nintendo's reaction to Phil Spencer proposal to buy them:

Nintendo ‘laughed their asses off’ at Xbox buyout offer, recalls launch exec | VGC

Imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.”…

www.videogameschronicle.com

“Steve made us go meet with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired,” added Kevin Bachus, Xbox’s then director of third-party relations. “They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.”

 

[ahtlas7]

 

[Thirty7ven]

They've been at it throughout the whole regulatory process for the Activision deal. Microsoft will have given them inordinate amounts of cash for advertising and "extras".

https://preview.redd.it/according-to-financial-times-uk-tech-scene-raises-alarm-v0-o3z308v9qowa1.png?width=709&format=png&auto=webp&s=cb32c0d14937393900dddb2dad1e1f044382f392

www.reddit.com

So boring too, there’s nothing clever about any of this.

 

[MaxwellParrish]

Not retarded. Dishonest shill.

Not to sure about this : to suggest that Nintendo should sell to Ms is something that a dishonest shill would say, to suggest that Disney could up their offer, when in the near future they will probably need to liquidate a lot of assets just to continue repay the debt they contracted buying Fox, it's pretty retarded.

 

[Sanepar]

Is the author of this article fucking retarded?

Nope. He was paid to write exactly that.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Is the author of this article fucking retarded?

I asked ChatGPT what it thought of the article, and this was its exact response.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

That one like you gave, JPSLotus97T , has ruined all the lol and triggered reactions combo that I've received for this OP.

 

[JPSLotus97T]

That one like JPSLotus97T has ruined my lol and triggered reaction combo for my OP.

Glad I could be of service! lol

 

[ElCasual]

Is this on Gamepass or is just a DLC?
Or maybe a GaaS?

 

[SaucyJack]

Author describes article as a "thought experiment".

Where did I see that phrase before?

Top shilling.

 

[Ansphn]

Just stop with this B.S. They act like Nintendo isn't already a behemoth and Japan is a small country with a miniscule GDP.

 

[Deerock71]

Just going by the headline, this looks entirely purchased by Microsoft. Well played!

 

[Dr_Ifto]

This is the take of a lifetime, jesus chirst

 

[Sethbacca]

I'd rather see MS implode and take XBOX and the entirety of Windows with them than see them buy and fuck up all these IPs I've loved since I was a child.

 

[Shubh_C63]

FT wants Japan to sell Nintendo so that other Japanese companies might know their real value.

I don't think they need a jolt to remind how valuable they are if someone comes up knocking for them to buy.

 

[fart town usa]

I'm not even much of a fan of Nintendo these days but an article like this requires some pitchforks. Get ready boys, we ride at dawn!

 

[diffusionx]

Similar to how WaPo is a mouthpiece for the CIA, the FT is a mouthpiece for international banking. They see Nintendo as a big golden goose out there in the Orient, and they imagine doing to it the same thing they did to the golden geese in the west - kill them and extract the short-term profits. It would be a huge business opportunity for the bankers and put all this property under western (read: their) control.

 

[rnlval]

Why Japan should sell Nintendo

A thought experiment about selling one of its crown jewels could be transformative for the country

www.ft.com

The opinion piece on FT is paywalled so I'll post this snapshot instead:

Another garbage from FT.

 

[rnlval]

Similar to how WaPo is a mouthpiece for the CIA, the FT is a mouthpiece for international banking. They see Nintendo as a big golden goose out there in the Orient, and they imagine doing to it the same thing they did to the golden geese in the west - kill them and extract the short-term profits. It would be a huge business opportunity for the bankers and put all this property under western control.

Intervention in social media is a 'big government" politically driven intervention.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

ReeeeTarded.

 

[Solidus_T]

Article commissioned by Phil

 

[Dirk Benedict]

Nintendo:

Only true masters of the universe will understand it's context.

 

[LordBlodgett]

This article is retarded. Some kind of silly fantasy. Nintendo is still kicking butt and making money hand over fist, why in the world should they sell? "Proving that their brand is undervalued by selling it" has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever heard.

Now if we are talking about Square Enix or Sega then its different. Those two companies have some of the best IP in the world, and yet they continually make bad decisions or lose money. I keep hoping they will turn around their management like Capcom did, but after so many years of mediocre decision making I'm not so sure.

 

[Raven77]

F this article. What a joke of a read.

Author of it should be ashamed.

 

[Trunx81]

New Cortana leaked

 

[SunStarry]

Everyone is taking the article title too literal

 

[Banjo64]

Everyone is taking the article title too literal

4 posts in 18 months, to drop insight like this.

The hero we deserve.

 

[John Wick]

Fuck off with this shit. Nintendo is Japanese and needs to stay that way. It would lose everything that makes it Nintendo if an American company bought it.

 

[K' Dash]

Between Sony and Nintendo, why would you sell the successful one?

 

[Wastelander92]

The only good thing to come out of this would be Nintendo games on PC.