Trip Hawkins Fires up His Magic Eight Ball

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Topic started: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:04
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schnide
Joined 23 Apr 2004
575 comments
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:04
Trip Hawkins said: “My magic eight ball says Nintendo will be acquired by Microsoft within five years.”


Bullshit, it'll never happen. End of.

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kid_77
Joined 29 Nov 2004
875 comments
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:24
schnide wrote:
Trip Hawkins said: “My magic eight ball says Nintendo will be acquired by Microsoft within five years.”


Bullshit, it'll never happen. End of.

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If M$ really wanted to stamp out Sony, they could do worse than acquire the grandaddy of video games.

I agree it's not likely, but you never know.
pacowc3
Joined 9 Oct 2004
6 comments
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:37
No way Nintendo is being acquired by microsoft. Even if it did, it wouldnt help microsoft in any noticeable way. Japanese would flock to Sony, because microsoft is a Gaijin company. Dont think the reason why XBOX isnt selling is because it sucks, quite the contrary Xbox has alot of good games, many of which would sell in Japan. Unofrtunately, they are american so they are blacklisted. Anyway, buying nintendo might help in america but it wouldnt do anything in Japan, except further widen sony dominance.
Pandaman
Joined 19 Mar 2004
466 comments
Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:16
This is rediculous. Everyone knows that Nintendo is a company with profit, prestige, and most importantly, pri-...

...what now? ...oh he did? Mafia Wars? Oh...wow.

Man, Nintendo is doomed! The Revolution, DS, and GBA Next are going to flop, and their huge amounts of black ink are going to dissapear for good! The British are coming, the British are coming!
Ditto
Joined 10 Jun 2004
1169 comments
Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:30
He's talking out of his ass.

I just can't see a successful Japanese company selling out to a western giant. There are plenty of possible buyers in Japan.

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