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sounds fine, but will definately need a better graphics card.

1st post !

Bring on the merger

Jobs + Iwata = The New Super Bros

I'd buy one....

No. This won't happen.

Nintendo is sitting on a pile of cash.

They're a Japanese company with a long history.

They'd never sell to Apple.

I personally just don't see it happening, it doesn't seem to be an area that Jobs wants to get into, plus Apple isn't a company that sells things at a loss like Sony and Microsoft do, just to garner market share...

>but will definately need a better graphics card.>

Yes, to define the games. No A in definitely. (collidge graddyouate?)

MW-problems--as in- our schools.

interesting. I like it.

Personally I would just like to see mutual usage of things like bonjour to enable some sort of chat between networked apple and nintendo machines. A webkit based browser with which you can sync your bookmarks etc. In terms of the hardware, games etc becoming one and having some sort of hybrid machine I wouldn't be interested. I would run them separately but make sure their stuff worked well together in a network capacity.

MDN Take: It was something in the clam chowder (or is it chowdah?).

No way.

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remember, you heard it here first.

Totally left-field, but v. interesing.

Without any concrete facts however, I'm not going to waste time thinking about it.

Knowing the history of competition between Japanese and American companies, from autos in the 70s and 80s to Kodak and Fuji's latest spat, and of course the console wars, I'm going to have to say this will never happen.

However, my next console will probably be a Wii.

Why would Nintendo even want to be bought out? They've been doing fine for decades. A partnership MAYBE (That's a HUGE maybe. There's no benefit to Nintendo besides some minor extra cash) between Nintendo and Apple with really old Nintendo games ported to the Mac but not Nintendo being bought out.

Then they will bring out the Wiiipod...

or the Wiiiphone...

Apple should buy Nintendo or even Infinium's Phantom console. Either or both would be a fine addition to Apple.

MDNW: game

I've been secretly dreaming of this for a while.

OK, who are these so called conspiracy theorists? Some 15 yr olds in a chat room? Common, No way would this happen. Why bother to report s#%* like this?

Instead of a merger why not a colabration.

The "iWii"... Awesome.

Ampar,


Now that is quite weird and more than a bit scary as I was actually eating New England Clam Chowder as I read your feedback!

(shudder)

A collaboration a la Nike would make sense, though if Apple bought then maybe the gaming logo could be the Apple with an 'N' replacing the leaf...

Apple will buy Palm. Apple will buy RIM. Apple will buy Nintendo. Apple will buy blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah.

Damn these slow news days®

The Nintendo DS is butt ugly. How in the world can you even associate the DS with Ives? That is a huge insult.

Hmmm. Interesting thought.

But . . How about this: Apple and Nintendo come out with an adapter that plugs into a Mac mini (or other mac) that costs less than a Nintendo but gives you the best of both. You play all your Nintendo games on the combo but its cheaper than buying a full up Nintendo.

both sides win. JMHO.

N.

what was the last recognizable company that Apple bought? The last one i can remember is Logic?

Gee - read the article, idiot. It says "DS Lite", not "DS".

Don't forget Apple Logic Audio... They scooped up a very powerful, cutting-edge, sampler/editor technology, tore it appart and put the technological components into basically all of its audio technologies - as well as retaining the full original product, and have even continued to develop the Logic software product.

Instead of just buying the company to get it out of the way, they actually had a plan, and its yielded excellent products for the end user in the form of Soundtrack Pro, Logic, and Garage Band.

I'd love to see Apple get Nintendo and go with it as only Apple can and does do.

Actually, I think purchasing Nintendo makes good sense. Jobs has stated that he wants Apple to become the Sony of CE.

Well, let's look at what Sony manufactures:
Computers
Music Payers
Game Consoles
Televisions
Entertainment content

Apple has Sony dominated in computers and music players, and is doing nothing in the game console, television or entertainment sectors.

Games are Nintendo's only products, making them a perfect fit in Apple's CE strategy. Couple that with similar corporate and leadership personalities/cultures, and at the very least you have strong reasons for Apple and Nintendo to explore working together.

Apple could certainly afford Nintendo, and if they did purchase them, I think the Street would react very positively.

Yes the article is nothing but rank speculation, but it is grounded in some reasonable ideas. I think an Apple purchase of Nintendo could work.

As mentioned in the article, the fan base of the two companies is almost eerily similar. A purchase of Nintendo wouldn't mean Apple would deviate from its core competencies at *all* if they chose not to.

Just the opposite in fact. They could endorse a Mac/Wii tandem as the perfect home combo, sell iTunes through the Wii and DS, allow iPod Syncing on a Wii, etc. In fact, *lots* of Apple fans do that already due to the weak gaming selection on the Mac. They pair a Nintendo unit for gaming with their Mac of choice.

Of course, the whole concept is admitedly a highly unlikely but, I believe, a potentially great pairing.

At any rate, Apple *should* step into gaming to some degree. They are leaving money on the table by not doing so. The control the 'entire widget' as Jobs is fond of saying. They would have a *guaranteed* market for their games with the Mac and, could release the really popular ones for the PC six months later for an even better return.

MDN Webmaster: <cue Twilight Zone theme music>

this would have a lot more credibility if the Wii wasn't powered by a power pc chip. it doesn't make sense.

if the Wii was intel ( or macs were still power PC ) I could see it.

curious though

mdn magic word - wrong

take it as you wish

Why not Adobe?

i've been saying this since the pippin failed.

curious:
"this would have a lot more credibility if the Wii wasn't powered by a power pc chip. it doesn't make sense."

Universal binaries leave a lot of doors open, George.

However, I don't think either will happen (the buying of Nintendo or switching back to PPC chips).

Now be a good little monkey, and don't be so curious.

First time I've heard of it. I wouldn't get excited to much until Apple says something. Most likely they will deny this and that will be the end of this story.

"the US's number three games console manufacturer"

Have I missed something all these years?
Nintendo is an American company?!!

A merger or co-operation (like Nike/Apple) is more likely.
Why would Nintendo let itself be bought out now - with such a winner (Wii) on its hands?

Sod Nintendo, They're just ripping off Apples Design and marketing. A Deal With Sega/Sammy Holdings Would Be Ace!

>Yes, to define the games. No A in definitely. (collidge graddyouate?)<
hey Ron, you caught the blooper and made one of your own, cool! The day your Danish is as good as my English, we'll talk.

mw: research 'nuff said

Interesting thought, but it may well be the death of Nintendo if it happens. Still, Apple could take the technology two compatible ways after purchase:
a) integrate half the Wii into a Mac mini-G(amer) (and an iMac-G?)
b) bring the Wii into the sweet spot of the Apple Store

This would give Apple a new market segment to target. So it's coming from third place, so? That's still tens (hundreds?) of thousands of Macs sold a year and tens of thousands of people a month checking out the goodies at the Apple Store nearest them.

Well as much as that would be interesting, its not happening... Nintendo is VERY strong and couldn't easily be bought out.

Collaborations are imminent in some time, and we all see the apple in nintendo (especially their upcoming hardware designs)

"Sod Nintendo, They're just ripping off Apples Design and marketing. A Deal With Sega/Sammy Holdings Would Be Ace!"

Im sorry, but because they have similar hardware design doesnt mean they are "ripping off" apple, it simply means a new standard for tech has been set... and its white.
Not to mention, Nintendo is collaborating with Sega, quite a bit actually.

Nintendo in the face of defeat?

LOL.. dude. Get a grip. Nintendo is the most profitable of the three gaming companies.. the DS is thrilling Japan in every possible sales category,and everyone is salivating over Nintendo's upcoming system.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

Not happening.

Nintendo's market value is nearly 20 Billion dollars.

And it's not like Nintendo is a privately held company...

It just may be crazy enough to work.

And just when is this partnership with Sony that we were promised a couple of years ago?

Perhaps more likely is a Sony Wega with Front Row installed?

I laughed when I read the headlines but as I read the article .... it actually makes some sense.

Apple partner with Sony? First of all, Apple has its own line of LCD displays which are quite nice, thank you. Second, Sony has done everything short of tell consumers, :fuck off and don't buy our products."

Why would Apple want that damaged company partnering with them? What are you smoking, sunseeker?

Speaking of smoking…
@Ampar:
me thinks matty be smoking something doobee-ous.

"me thinks matty be smoking something doobee-ous."

And his clock goes BONG!?

curious has it right; this would have made sense a year and a half ago when Apple was still a PPC-based computer company. And Universal Binaries don't make it academic, if for no other reason than because Nintendos library of games would cost a small fortune to convert to UBs now (and they'd have to be to play well on Macintel hardware).

No, the real reason this - or some strong partnership between Apple and Nintendo - would have made a whole lot of sense, is because of the economies of scale the two could bring to bear on IBM in getting CPUs at extremely low cost. Arguably, from the financial point of view, Apple would've been the main beneficiary. With Nintendo's 4-5 million CPUs per year in console sales backing their own roughly 1 million PCs/year, they would've combined to be a customer that IBM would've bent over backward to please. But from a technological perspective, Nintendo certainly would have benefited from having Apple's CPU design expertise in their corner. Frankly, Apple getting the CPU of its dreams out of IBM for it's personal computers would have gauranteed a great baseline game console processor for Nintendo. The latter company could then focus on the graphics end of things almost exclusively - another plus for them. Finally, with the two of them splitting the already reduced design costs (IBM typically takes on more of that expense when it knows it's gonna sell a shitload of units), I think you're talking about a real win-win scenario.

Sadly, for Apple, that's an alternate universe that has now all but collapsed in on itself forever.


MDN magic word: "was"

Huh. How fitting.

Nintendo does not need Apple to produce stylish hardware and Apple does not need Nintendo to bring games to Macs; they have Boot Camp for that. It would be cool to see the two companies working together for something like Front Row on Wii but I do not think they need to merge for that to happen. As for the idea of a Mac Mini with Nintendo games, the price of such a console would make it as expensive as the PS3 and comparable to the Pippin.