Topic: After the Wii U, where does Nintendo go from here?

This is true. I'm not sure Cook is the biggest fan of gaming either, though.

It's more likely now, for sure. I still wouldn't put Apple as my #1 bet for acquiring Nintendo.

What makes you think Apple can outdo Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft in the gaming side?

Also, it's not that hard to understand how business go. I only know the very basic side and I'm not that ignorant.

For example, just because I don't know how to make video games doesn't mean I don't know how the process goes.

Stuff you pick up.

My impression is that you want Nintendo to be acquired- but why? See, I like Nintendo a lot as a company, but I'm not going around saying "Nintendo will acquire Sega" or "Nintendo should acquire Capcom".

Like you said, I'm not too keen on business and all that but you don't have to have experience to know things, really :/

What makes you think Apple can outdo Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft in the gaming side?

How many dud products has Apple made since Jobs returned to the company? There's your answer.

Also, it's not that hard to understand how business go.

So those CEOs that work 60+ hour weeks are just sitting around Googling themselves? Once again, if you can give surgeons the respect not to presume that you know more than they do about heart surgery, and you give lawyers enough respect that you don't presume to tell them how to do their jobs, why do you think you're in any place to make assesments on business? It's a profession, being a C-level exec, not a trade.

I only know the very basic side and I'm not that ignorant.

You've yet to prove you know much at all about business, actually. You make grand guesses and try to pass them off as informed opinions, but you've got little to no evidence to back those opinions up.

My impression is that you want Nintendo to be acquired- but why? See, I like Nintendo a lot as a company, but I'm not going around saying "Nintendo will acquire Sega" or "Nintendo should acquire Capcom".

I've actually already explained it multiple times. Nintendo is struggling to find relevance in a modern world of connected devices. Nintendo has no real partnerships on the hardware side, its online infrastructure is terrible, and its devices don't "talk" to anything. It's an isolated company that will start running out of resources soon.

I want to see Nintendo successful again, I want to see Nintendo properly resourced. I want to see Nintendo's console as part of my personal entertainment network. Nintendo needs to be acquired to do that.

Like you said, I'm not too keen on business and all that but you don't have to have experience to know things, really :/

So those few million people that work their backsides off for 5,6 years to be properly qualified to run businesses, or spent 20,30 years working their way up to the CEO's role wasted their time and should just do what you do, and guess with the assumption that they've "picked stuff up."?

Disney is not a hardware company or a consumer electronics company. They make movies, TV shows, video games, etc.

And what stake does Panasonic have in the video game industry? You could make the same assumption about any major electronics company (Samsung, LG, Toshiba, etc.). Adding another console manufacturer to an already crowded market will just confuse consumers. This same thing happened in the early days of the video game industry, too many consoles with not enough diverse content. That's what caused the crash of 1983, and if the market becomes too crowded (which it already is), then consumers might just feel overwhelmed and lose interest.

Sony created their own game system from scratch (PlayStation), and so did Microsoft (Xbox). Both companies did it on their own, and they only bought out game developers so they'd have better resources for 1st-party development.

Another thing, relating to my paragraph about Panasonic... With three different home consoles, 4 handhelds (3DS, DS, PSP, Vita), and a legion of smartphone/tablet devices, the game market is already overcrowded. What's the point in trying to keep up with all these systems just to play a few games? It would be much easier if multiplatform games were cross-compatable between consoles, leaving the only exclusive games as 1st-party. Example, I buy a 3rd-party game for the 360 and I can play it on my PS3. But then there's the problem of disc format and different hardware.

Perhaps the console manufacturers should agree on a hardware standard and disc format standard (not a one-console future). Look at the DVD/Blu-ray player market. Many different brands, but they all play the same movies. There's a standard format that they all oblige to. The console manufacturers could have a standard of hardware specs, and just license out the manufacturing to different companies. It would be like what 3DO tried to do with their console, only more refined.

EDIT: After some research, I noticed that Panasonic has tried to enter the video game industry in the past. They manufactured some of the 3DO systems (along with Goldstar), and in 2010 they designed a handheld called the "Jungle", but it was cancelled due to perceived changes in the market.

You think I'm belittling those folks?

Excuse me, I'm not at all. And I'm not trying to act ask if I know more than "professionals", so I don't understand why you're going on about that. There are plenty information out there on the internet if you ever wanted to learn.

And for your infromation, I do try to back up my opinions as much as I can the only problem is you either dismiss it, overlook, or just disagree (the latter if fine by me because I don't care- an opnion is an opinion).

If you don't like when people talk about business and know nothing about it (because you're a professional, right?), then you might as well not bring it up or pursue the discussions. And of all places, Nintendolife.

OK guys can we just leave it at only Nintendo knows if they are going to "bought out" or not, seriously this sorta thing just sickens me.

'Tis quite alright, the internet is not the best place for reading into conversational tones and intentions. I can see where my joke could have been read as a ill-intentioned jab.

If you don't like when people talk about business and know nothing about it (because you're a professional, right?)

I like it about as much as a Nintendo fanboy likes it when someone makes fun of Mario/ Pokemon/ Zelda games without ever having played one.

Hopefully that's an analogy you actually get.

I do try to back up my opinions as much as I can the only problem is you either dismiss it,

You seem to assume your opinions are right. Many of your opinions are about as legitimate as someone claiming the earth is flat.

If you don't like when people talk about business and know nothing about it (because you're a professional, right?), then you might as well not bring it up or pursue the discussions. And of all places, Nintendolife.

Read back. I didn't start the conversation. The first post in this thread is Tendoboy.

Actually, you're the one who thinks your opinions are right. Use the "world is flat" comparison on yourself, thanks.

The irony of what you said is amusing. Coming from someone who points fingers "Fanboy, you're a fanboy this, you're a fanboy" when you yourself act like one. Own up. Stop copping out with the Fanboy Card. It's old already.
Never have I said or come off as thinking my opinion is right. Especially when I constantly say "An opinion is an opinion" not "My opinion is a fact".

Don't get it twisted.

And I'm not referring to this particular topic. Either way, you're still pursuing it, so whatever.

Wait... it's not?

Nah. The world's built on the back of two giant robot-things that managed to kill each other at exactly the same moment a few million years ago.

Oh right, of course.
Silly me.

Havent you read disc world? its on the back of a giant turtle!

That's actually an ancient American myth (and from what I just read, apparently east Asian, too... interesting). It's funny that everyone seems to know that from Discworld though.

The more you know.

Actually the Indians (Hindu Indians, not Native Americans) believed the Earth was held up by a giant elephant.

lol, i think this entire thread changed topic for a few posts, wonder how long that will happen.....

Shouldn't this thread have been made AFTER the wii u comes out, and starts its life ???

That turtle is also a Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition epic-level beastie to fight.

Most D & D beasties come from mythology from somewhere's mythology, but I'd never thought to look that particular case up. Now I know. I can die peacefully now.

Nerd alert! _{Just kidding! I'm a Mario nerd at heart, I used to know the names and designs of every single enemy in the Mario series up to Super Mario Land 2}

Downhill.