Why *Japan* should sell Nintendo? Japan doesn’t own Nintendo. It’s not a nationalized company.
witwebolte41
Lol
MrASK15
> “Is this a joke?”
– Ashe Ubert (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
unagiboi
Why Waluigi should buy Nintendo once Japan sells it.
Nos9684
LOL You can tell whoever wrote this garbage is a non Japanese Microsoft shill.
IggyWithoutThePop
So…someone on the *Financial Times*….who doesn’t know how corporate sales work, what kind of corporate entity Nintendo actually is, and doesn’t even seem to grasp how *countries in general* work….decided to write an article – a paid article – that something should get sold to something else.
Because…what? He wants to play Mario on his Xbox?
See…shit like this makes me reconsider that having AI take over journalism isn’t such a bad idea.
Digitalmodernism
This is probably paid for by Microsoft or some other company in order to sway people towards believing Nintendo should be purchased.
MysteriousDesk3
This article reads like a journalist meeting their quota for the week using a chat-gpt prompt.
Disrupt the Japanese stock market by selling off one of the most successful companies in the world so that Microsoft can do to Nintendo IPs what they did to Gears and Halo?
What a crock of shit.
NVD6432
People get paid to write crap like this. I should reconsider my career options.
Kakaphr4kt
this is written by such a turbo-capitalist pig, who has lost touch with reality and floats in his neo-liberal, hyper-capitalist cloud above normal people’s lives.
I mean, look at this sentence
>Japan should think about selling Nintendo as both intellectual experiment and shock therapy.
He clearly views business and the stockmarket as a game, disconnected from people. Companies as toys to be “experimented” with. Monopolies as something to strive for. He’s a deranged madman. He’s exemplary to all the wankers in the finance business. A disease to all humanity
MinkoAk
This one is going to be a laugh.
Double_D_DDT
Last week it was a guy asking if Microsoft could sue Mario, now it’s an article about Japan selling Nintendo. Have I finally cracked? Am I losing my fucking mind? Wowie zowie, reality is coming apart at the seams
Akky1989
Yeah no. Nintendo is too important for game development in general to be sold to anyone, especially some big western developer like Microsoft, who have largely dropped the idea of good character creation and interesting gameplay for graphics and realism, and seemingly want to push for thier consoles to be fully digital.
If anything, i’d rather Nintendo find more exceptional partner studios in talented but underutilised markets like Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and S.Korea before Sony gobbles them all up. If they had another Monolith Soft or 3 under their belt we could see more quality returning IP’s and new IP’s.
Asian developers aren’t as bound by the same world view as many western devs and I prefer the games they make because of it, true creative diversity.
Hammered21
“japan” doesnt get to just sell nintendo, so this stupid article is even stupider than usual
Super_Bright
As probably expected from the FT, this is business man fan fiction essentially. It’s arguing for why Nintendo should be sold to an American company to reshape the Japanese stock market. The fact that such an article would be released with barely any consideration for what such a move would mean for the health of the gaming industry and the obvious potential monopoly that would be caused if Microsoft (which the article clearly stated would be the only conceivable buyer) bought a direct hardware rival tells you everything you need to know about the author and the publication.
Past_Cardiologist765
The writer needs to gets curb stomped into oblivion. What a fucking moron, typical American narcissist
ThePocketLion
Japan owning Nintendo is a new development
sambarjo
The site is asking me to pay $1 to read the article…
Wrong_Revolution_679
Feels like they were trying to get the attention of all the people talking about that Microsoft email but it comes off as lazy and weird
cheesus_christ42069
Uhhh no thanks.
Radcirceles
Xbox fans are so pathetic they think Xbox will outsells PlayStation with Microsoft’s shitty strategy of buying companies to nothing after. Get over it Xbox is done on 2027 and won’t come back.
Burnstryk
My next article: Why UK should sell Financial Times (because they’re garbage)
> it is easy to imagine Disney or Apple stepping in, followed quickly by Google and Sony.
Sony is in no way capable of acquiring Nintendo. This sentence alone invalidates the entire article.
_Guyver2_
If Nintendo plays their cards right Nintendo will be bigger than Disney in 10 years. They’d be fools to sell now.
MatadorMedia
Nintendo will never sell. They are industry leaders.
RazorThin55
Why financial journalists should stop pretending they even know a little bit about the gaming industry.
IllustratorNice1234
Financial Times is a fucking joke. The favorite paper of all fintech bros
ZeldaisdaGOAT
Michaelsoft
murder_1
lol the day Nintendo is bought out is the day I stop buying Nintendo stuff. We’ve all seen how well mergers and acquisitions go (Blizzard)
BrandonAsh1980
I’ve always been a Playstation and Nintendo guy.Never had anything against Microsoft really but it’s stupid junk like this that makes me hate them.That and them trying to buy everything and limit what gamers can play unless they buy their junk. It’s like a childish bully lol!
supremegamer76
That title makes it seem that the Japanese government owns Nintendo
on_the_nod
Apple approached Nintendo with a buyout in 2016.
your_awesomeking1
just stop they doing fine doing there own thing
NowakFoxie
Japan doesn’t own Nintendo but even then, because Nintendo’s on the 518 list and is *also* considered “of notable cultural significance to Japan” foreign companies (like Microsoft) can’t own more than 50% of their assets.
Also can I say that it’s so weird how Phil admitted in that email that he’s making his career out of buying out other companies, instead of providing good, first-party content for Xbox owners? There’s so many studios under the Xbox umbrella but there’s not many first-party games for the Xbox all that worth playing.
axdwl
I don’t even have to read it to offer an LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
pocket_arsenal
What is this
Jay-Booze
The real reason is Nintendo refuses to make “games” like TLOU2. They’ll be forced one way or another, acquisition is just one route.
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Why *Japan* should sell Nintendo? Japan doesn’t own Nintendo. It’s not a nationalized company.
Lol
> “Is this a joke?”
– Ashe Ubert (Fire Emblem: Three Houses)
Why Waluigi should buy Nintendo once Japan sells it.
LOL You can tell whoever wrote this garbage is a non Japanese Microsoft shill.
So…someone on the *Financial Times*….who doesn’t know how corporate sales work, what kind of corporate entity Nintendo actually is, and doesn’t even seem to grasp how *countries in general* work….decided to write an article – a paid article – that something should get sold to something else.
Because…what? He wants to play Mario on his Xbox?
See…shit like this makes me reconsider that having AI take over journalism isn’t such a bad idea.
This is probably paid for by Microsoft or some other company in order to sway people towards believing Nintendo should be purchased.
This article reads like a journalist meeting their quota for the week using a chat-gpt prompt.
Disrupt the Japanese stock market by selling off one of the most successful companies in the world so that Microsoft can do to Nintendo IPs what they did to Gears and Halo?
What a crock of shit.
People get paid to write crap like this. I should reconsider my career options.
this is written by such a turbo-capitalist pig, who has lost touch with reality and floats in his neo-liberal, hyper-capitalist cloud above normal people’s lives.
I mean, look at this sentence
>Japan should think about selling Nintendo as both intellectual experiment and shock therapy.
He clearly views business and the stockmarket as a game, disconnected from people. Companies as toys to be “experimented” with. Monopolies as something to strive for. He’s a deranged madman. He’s exemplary to all the wankers in the finance business. A disease to all humanity
This one is going to be a laugh.
Last week it was a guy asking if Microsoft could sue Mario, now it’s an article about Japan selling Nintendo. Have I finally cracked? Am I losing my fucking mind? Wowie zowie, reality is coming apart at the seams
Yeah no. Nintendo is too important for game development in general to be sold to anyone, especially some big western developer like Microsoft, who have largely dropped the idea of good character creation and interesting gameplay for graphics and realism, and seemingly want to push for thier consoles to be fully digital.
If anything, i’d rather Nintendo find more exceptional partner studios in talented but underutilised markets like Taiwan, Hong Kong, China and S.Korea before Sony gobbles them all up. If they had another Monolith Soft or 3 under their belt we could see more quality returning IP’s and new IP’s.
Asian developers aren’t as bound by the same world view as many western devs and I prefer the games they make because of it, true creative diversity.
“japan” doesnt get to just sell nintendo, so this stupid article is even stupider than usual
As probably expected from the FT, this is business man fan fiction essentially. It’s arguing for why Nintendo should be sold to an American company to reshape the Japanese stock market. The fact that such an article would be released with barely any consideration for what such a move would mean for the health of the gaming industry and the obvious potential monopoly that would be caused if Microsoft (which the article clearly stated would be the only conceivable buyer) bought a direct hardware rival tells you everything you need to know about the author and the publication.
The writer needs to gets curb stomped into oblivion. What a fucking moron, typical American narcissist
Japan owning Nintendo is a new development
The site is asking me to pay $1 to read the article…
Feels like they were trying to get the attention of all the people talking about that Microsoft email but it comes off as lazy and weird
Uhhh no thanks.
Xbox fans are so pathetic they think Xbox will outsells PlayStation with Microsoft’s shitty strategy of buying companies to nothing after. Get over it Xbox is done on 2027 and won’t come back.
My next article: Why UK should sell Financial Times (because they’re garbage)
[Knowing Nintendo themselves laughed out this idea back in 2003](https://youtu.be/_n5E7feJHw0?si=H-u1_bvV-FgkhTuc)
> it is easy to imagine Disney or Apple stepping in, followed quickly by Google and Sony.
Sony is in no way capable of acquiring Nintendo. This sentence alone invalidates the entire article.
If Nintendo plays their cards right Nintendo will be bigger than Disney in 10 years. They’d be fools to sell now.
Nintendo will never sell. They are industry leaders.
Why financial journalists should stop pretending they even know a little bit about the gaming industry.
Financial Times is a fucking joke. The favorite paper of all fintech bros
Michaelsoft
lol the day Nintendo is bought out is the day I stop buying Nintendo stuff. We’ve all seen how well mergers and acquisitions go (Blizzard)
I’ve always been a Playstation and Nintendo guy.Never had anything against Microsoft really but it’s stupid junk like this that makes me hate them.That and them trying to buy everything and limit what gamers can play unless they buy their junk. It’s like a childish bully lol!
That title makes it seem that the Japanese government owns Nintendo
Apple approached Nintendo with a buyout in 2016.
just stop they doing fine doing there own thing
Japan doesn’t own Nintendo but even then, because Nintendo’s on the 518 list and is *also* considered “of notable cultural significance to Japan” foreign companies (like Microsoft) can’t own more than 50% of their assets.
Also can I say that it’s so weird how Phil admitted in that email that he’s making his career out of buying out other companies, instead of providing good, first-party content for Xbox owners? There’s so many studios under the Xbox umbrella but there’s not many first-party games for the Xbox all that worth playing.
I don’t even have to read it to offer an LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
What is this
The real reason is Nintendo refuses to make “games” like TLOU2. They’ll be forced one way or another, acquisition is just one route.
Still time to delete this dumb shit