Bill Gates wants to buy Nintendo.

[kockblocker1]

Check it out.

http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/04/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/index.htm

If he did buy it how do you think the gaming community would look in say 5 or 10 years from now?

[!King_Amazon!]

If he buys it I'm getting an I-Mac.

[kockblocker1]

If he buys it I'm getting an I-Mac.


Why? He already owns part of Apple. But he does not however own any part of Nintendo... yet.

[Sovereign]

Ill sell my gamecube and say fuck you to console games.

[Shining Knights]

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

[Jamesadin]

Nintendo won't budge. Atleast they shouldn't...And if they do.....homicidal rampage!

[KagomJack]

I would forsee a tragic event in Mr. Gates' future if he attempts this. As well as the current owners of Nintendo if they give in.

[WetWired]

This is all based off of rumor
Nintendo has no reason to sell
Microsoft can't buy Nintendo. Mergers of large companies have to be approved by some government committie to prevent monopolies, and if you think Microsoft is going to get by by playing Mr. Innocent, where have you been for the past decade?

[tokill.ace]

yea wut wetwired sed i say bill gates shuld just buy a lil part of hell and live in it

[Slim]

Learn to type in English, internet lingo pisses people off...like me.

[NonGayMan]

Microsoft is going to buy Blizzard next! GASP!

[MightyJoe]

He would definetly own a great percentage of the console world then. Another monoply to be broken up?

[Penny_Bags]

Microsoft is going to buy Blizzard next! GASP! OMG NGM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What's going to happent to DIABLO 3?!?!?!??!?!?!

[D3V]

This is like some weird SciFi movie. Gates is the evil-mastermind behind it all.

Though, I doubt it'd realistically happen. Though, he is worth like 44 Billion alone.

[!King_Amazon!]

I'm sure he could do it if he wanted to.

[D3V]

Microsoft is going to own the U.S. government before we know it...or do they already?

[Slim]

They already do, Bush sold it for a shiny piece of tin foil.

[kockblocker1]

They already do, Bush sold it for a shiny piece of tin foil.
And some magic beans...

[D3V]

I thought we traded our country for the weapons of mass destruction!

Though, if Gates does find some way to actually buy Nintendo, maybe the Xbox and GC will make a baby! XCUBE! GAMEBOX!

[Raziel]

Won't happen. Nintendo just spent nearly 6 billion dollars buying back their own stock in order to prevent this from happening.

[D3V]

Can I see a link from that Raziel?

[Raziel]

Here is a link to a brand new article regarding Nintendo's opinion on Gates' comments. (http://cube.ign.com/articles/536/536275p1.html)

And whoops, I was way off in the amount in my previous post. Over 7 million dollars, not 6 billion.

Here are two statements from IGN. The first one comes from their n-query, their mailbag, the other one from a business news.

- "Apparently Microsoft, more than Nintendo, is interested in some kind of partnership."
- "Nintendo Co. Ltd. today announced that it had successfully repurchased 7.95 million (or about 5.6% shares outstanding) of its own stock. The company spent $728 million in the re-acquisition. The move, which was set into motion last June, was made by Nintendo in an attempt to ward off the possibility of a hostile takeover by another company."

Here's the link to the article. (http://nintendo.neopages.net/archives/news0603.html)

If IGN's seach engine didn't suck so damned much, I could have given you the original IGN article.

[D3V]

Alright, thanks much. Muchos Gracias