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Is Nintendo even remotely interested in being purchased?
They've existed since 1889. They pretty much decided to stop following the industry and just keep doing their own thing back when the wii came out.
Something in me doubts they are strapped for cash. They own Mario, Pokemon, and a lot more. And you don't make ridiculous consoles unless you're in a position to gamble.
The IPs alone are gold let alone the games they make. Pokemon imo has been subpar for a while and it still prints money. Yea i dont see them selling anytime soon.
Worth more than gold. Pokemon is the single highest grossing IP of ALL TIME
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
Pokémon? With the poké and the mon? https://youtu.be/_kUG-YDcLuw
I guess that clip is a little dark now that we know what Bill Cosby did to women. And we don’t even know what happened to Mortimer Ichabod Marker.
Interesting list. Supprised Lego is so low.
For media. I thought the highest grossing general IP was Hello Kitty.
Maybe, I found this image saying it's still above Hello Kitty, but not sure about the validity - https://imgur.com/ZEORgkV
Hot take: the Pokémon games have always been trash, and the version locked exclusives in each generation are day 1 dlc
I can see how it would be seen this way, but imo the intention from the beginning wasn't that people would buy both/all three versions per generation, it was to encourage people to trade with each other. Which absolutely worked when it came out. It was a totally new idea that definitely helped sell more people on the games, because they could connect with friends and trade or battle, with later gens adding even more features for when you connected.
I could see making the dlc argument these days, but at this point you could also argue it's just out of tradition.
I can't remember ever enjoying a Pokémon game. I think it's for people who get a dopamine hit from collecting.
For me they were always just fun little JRPGs. I usually don't go collecting all Pokémon. I just have my roster of monsters I regularly use in fights and level up.
Nintendo has $15B in cash and the company is worth $51B.
And Microsoft has twice that cash-on-hand if they wanna get wacky with it and break some anti-trust laws that aren't enforced anymore.
The Japanese government would not allow one of the country's most cherished brands sold off to one of the worst stewards to gaming's intellectual property value.
Well as a publicly traded company they are open to hostile take overs. But we have laws for that. Also japan probably has some way to stop it
The emails also indicate that they know exactly how well loved they would be amongst the public for taking that route. Which is to say they'd join Unity and X for publicity fuckups of their own making.