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I'd like to know what's the biggest acquisition Nintendo could afford to make right now. It's obv. much more their style to snatch up smaller companies and build them up of course.
I'd like to know what's the biggest acquisition Nintendo could afford to make right now. It's obv. much more they're style to snatch up smaller companies and build them up of course.
Isn't it possible for them to essentially buy any game company right now.. sans probably Microsoft?
I am not really sure if any member of Nintendo management team but the fellows at Japan HQ actually have any important 'decision making' role.Oh yeah, forgot about her, will be interesting to see how she does.
So they could buy EA or Activision? Really?
Activision has a market cap of $14.42 billion. EA's market cap is $5.26 billion.
Nintendo had around $10 billion in cash a year ago, so they perhaps could have bought EA at the time or during even stronger . Their cash balance has apparently dropped substantially since then (a combination, I imagine, of the severe exchange rate imbalance and of Nintendo heavily spending into R&D for the Wii U).
Finance-GAF is welcome to fix my gross incompetence when it comes to the stock market and how takeovers work.
Activision has a market cap of $14.42 billion. EA's market cap is $5.26 billion.
Nintendo had around $10 billion in cash a year ago, so they perhaps could have bought EA at the time or during even stronger . Their cash balance has apparently dropped substantially since then (a combination, I imagine, of the severe exchange rate imbalance and of Nintendo heavily spending into R&D for the Wii U).
Finance-GAF is welcome to fix my gross incompetence when it comes to the stock market and how takeovers work.
That is nuts. Why don't they just say "fuck it" and buy everyone (in this post: not a fiance major).
because they practically have less employees than them, and still make cosndierably much more profit than them (at least till a year ago);That is nuts. Why don't they just say "fuck it" and buy everyone (in this post: not a fiance major).
but there are some pretty good ones; e.g. Eidos acquisition by SE has been at least pretty good for SEHowever, the success rates of mergers and acquisitions is actually pretty bad, and it is a wonder so many are still attempted.
Well if you buy everyone.. you're left with no money
And there's no guarantee that everyone won't jump ship and start their own company.
yeah, but I'm sure the properties matter more than the employees. Who cares if all of Treyarch bails when you still have the CoD franchise? (please know I'm just talking in fantasy. I know this is a completely ridiculous topic lol)
because they practically have less employees than them, and still make cosndierably much more profit than them (at least till a year ago);
I suppose they can even buy Sony now; but why should they buy a sinking ship?
There are of course many other [non-financal aspects to it;
but there are some pretty good ones; e.g. Eidos acquisition by SE has been at least pretty good for SE
I think that's what Microsoft thought when they bought Rare. lol
I suppose they can even buy Sony now; but why should they buy a sinking ship?
I'm pretty sure Nintendo still has around 10 billion in the bank still.
YOU PEOPLE!
What do you mean "you people"?
I think that's what Microsoft thought when they bought Rare. lol
nintendo should stop making dividends and instead go for a zynga acquistion
Zynga's market cap is $6.34 billion.
In what universe is Zynga over three times the size of Nintendo when Nintendo pulls in twenty-five times the sales?
Really?I edited my earlier post. Nintendo has:
$5.76 billion in cash
$14.2 billion Total current assets
$17.1 billion Total liabilities and net assets.
Their market cap seems to be $2.06 billion, which kind of amuses me for some reason. Shouldn't you have more money invested in you than you have in cash?
I edited my earlier post. Nintendo has:
$5.76 billion in cash
$14.2 billion Total current assets
$17.1 billion Total liabilities and net assets.
Their market cap seems to be $2.06 billion, which kind of amuses me for some reason. Shouldn't you have more money invested in you than you have in cash?
ُThat most definitely is one othe most important reasons.Reason Nintendo doesnt outright buy studios unless long term relationships or something is buying the studio does not guarantee anything but ownership of IPs etc. Talent can leave etc and then its not much of a acquisition
I think that's what Microsoft thought when they bought Rare. lol
Really?
Their market cap was $40 Billion in 2008, and was around $18 Billion last year in 2011. What happened to make them worth $2 Billion now?
Edit: Their market cap is currently about $18 billion.
I see where you got it on Yahoo, but theres also this.
Source 1
And they once had a market cap of $85 Billion in 2007. I do not believe Nintendo has a market cap of only $2 billion right now.
Edit 2: Another source.
Nintendo to buy Twitch.tv
lol, I was indeed using Yahoo Finance. Thank you for actually looking with more depth than my doggie paddle.
My faith in the universe has been restored. Nintendo is no longer able to buy five of themselves with their own cash.
Erm, sorry 'bout that!
Nintendo once had a market cap of $85 billion (back in 2007). What could they have acquired with that much? That was worth almost twice as much as Sony back then, so depending on cash reserves, they may have been able to buy Sony. EA and Activision are no question.
It's a bit more complicated than that, of course.
lol, I was indeed using Yahoo Finance. Thank you for actually looking with more depth than my doggie paddle.
My faith in the universe has been restored. Nintendo is no longer able to buy five of themselves with their own cash.
Erm, sorry 'bout that!
It would be in line with the other talentless failures Nintendo has bought recently, like Monolithsoft and Retro.
Why should Nintendo buy more studios, when they pretty much snatched up half(all?) of Squaresoft, Enix, Sega, Naughty Dog, Hudson and few misc people
Satterfield was right. I am officially excite! As of an hour ago.
BlackNMild2k1 April 30th said:I've got something for us all to speculate on. It's something some of us have mentioned that Nintendo needs in the next system to bring them up to date feature-wise with the competition.
A background operating system that allows uniformity of function between different features and software. Such as Wii speak being independent from the game you are playing so that you can have a conversation with a friend while surfing the net, paying a game (same or different) or while browsing the WiiShop, background downloading (self explanatory), user accounts, etc. etc.
First we'll start with the Nintendo ES Operating System (NES OS?)that they were working on since way back before the release of the Wii
Inside Nintendo's ES Open-Source Operating System
[...]an open-source operating system from Nintendo, titled ES[...]was made public on August 30, 2006.
[...]
ES "runs natively on x86 (and qemu of course), kernel is written in C++, uses an ECMAScript interpreter for all of the userland, uses Cairo for graphics, and even has a port of [programming language] Squeak."
The OS is a 'research system,' meaning that there is no specific application for it at present, and is being used for experimentation. However, a story commenter on Gamedev.net theorizes: that it could be the framework for something like Microsoft's XNA, and is certainly expandable to platforms other than PC with a little work.
The commenter, 'ravyne2001' postulates: "Officially, it's simply a "research operating system." Something Nintendo is toying with and which may or may not lead to an eventual release in much the same way that Nintendo has always been in constant hardware development..."
"The working theory" he continues, "seems to be that this OS might be the early stages of something similar to Microsoft's XNA -- basically a sandbox environment which offers hardware acceleration and a userland based on some form of VM execution, ECMAscript in this instance. Although the current build is against X86, it could be ported over to PPC to run on the Wii, for instance."
For now, the operating system is laid bare to the public, which OSNews commentors seem to think is designed with broad adoption and simplicity in mind.
We know the next Wii needs a central OS to avoid the incompatible short sighted mess that is the current IOS we use now (older games can't use SDHC cards because it wasn't programmed for them, can't use WiiSpeak in multiplayer games because they weren't programmed for it, can't use whatever control scheme I want since it wasn't programmed for it, etc. etc.).
But the lead programmer for this ES Operating system left Nintendo for Google Japan....
http://jp.linkedin.com/pub/shiki-okasaka/7/876/5b3
Shiki Okasakas Experience
*
Software Engineer
Google Japan Inc.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)
January 2008 Present (2 years 4 months)
*
Group Manager
Nintendo Co., Ltd.
(Entertainment industry)
August 1998 December 2007 (9 years 5 months)
Designed and developed the operating system for GameCube
But he is still working on the ES Operating system which just so happens to be under copyright by Nintendo & Google.
http://code.google.com/p/es-operating-system/
We are creating a new pure component operating system named ES. This project was started by Shiki Okasaka and Kyu Ueno at Nintendo largely affected by Rob Pike's "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" talk in 2000. Since 2008, this project has been hosted in Google Code under the copyright of both Google and Nintendo in hope we can reach more people worldwide.
But what does all this mean? Is this something that Nintendo is hoping to make standard and use in the next home console?
Google just recently came out with their own browser and have an Operating System that soon to follow, could this code research have some overlap?
Is it possible that for the next generation Nintendo & Google team up to provide the software tools & enironment needed to build games and online infrastructure for future Nintendo systems?
*2007 said:"We propose an extensible component operating system architecture in which an operating system kernel uses reflection to process C++ pure virtual function based system calls and upcalls to provide a unified programming environment for application, server, and kernel development. We found that we could even develop file subsystems and a TCP/IP protocol stack on an existing operating system based on this architecture."
What does everyone think of a NintenGoogle team-up?
They do have common rivals in Apple & MS
and if the OS is any good, you can count on Sony licensing it[abbr=since they copy everything Nintendo does anyway, right!!]*[/abbr] just to stick it to MS... and make things harder for Apple.
What are the chances of RE:ORC coming to WiiU?
The IGN Q&A was boring, but she was pretty good at what she did.
What are the chances of RE:ORC coming to WiiU?
Satterfield was right. I am officially excite! As of an hour ago.
Am I the only one who thinks trophy systems are total crap? I don't need stupid tchotchkes to keep me playing, just a good game.
You know, I'd be OK with some social networking integration if it's clean and not too overbearing.
You're all way off, so stop guessing. This is why we can't have nice things.
I am not really sure if any member of Nintendo management team but the fellows at Japan HQ actually have any important 'decision making' role.
Reason Nintendo doesnt outright buy studios unless long term relationships or something is buying the studio does not guarantee anything but ownership of IPs etc. Talent can leave etc and then its not much of a acquisition
ُThat most definitely is one othe most important reasons.
I mean, look at Retro; it 'was' a Nintendo studio to begin with, and yet people left one after another
Oh, you.
Indeed... AniHawk really tries too hard to be a joke account sometimes.
I know I'm extremely late to the Android on Wii U rumor talk (I'm very behind in this thread in general, it takes hours to even skim through here to catch up)
and I know most believe that it isn't happening, but what if the rumors about Android isn't really about Android, but just something Nintendo & Google have been working on for a very long time together.
Here is a post I did back in 2010 on the very topic.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=16688.msg731247#msg731247
Now that was back in 2010, and they have had 2 years since then to turn whatever that project was into what it could be now.
We also know how Nintendo will tinker with an idea forever, and just when you've forgotten about it, here they reintroduce it again as if it were brand new and the thing to do.
So what do you guys think? Re-emergence of the NES OS?
That is way beyond just optimistic. 6.25x 360 on paper is completely out of the question. Even half that is pushing it a bit.
Very true. It also helps that the eidos develops games SE does not, so they were left relatively alone. Its when companies attempt to assimilate that things can go bad.but there are some pretty good ones; e.g. Eidos acquisition by SE has been at least pretty good for SE