-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Bloomberg: Microsoft Buying Nintendo Would Have Been a Disaster
- Thread starter Unknown Soldier
- Start date
- Analysis Hardware Platform
Topher
Identifies as young
What is this weird thread of career moment scenarios ?
ftfy
Yeah, and Phil should honestly take over and fix their output.
UltimaKilo
Gold Member
Clearly, you are very young. āNeverā is impossible to know, because no company is infinite. Also, Nintendo is a business, not a charity, they create good products in order for the consumer to purchase and so that they make profit. In business, there is always number.
Thirty7ven
Banned
What I find most egregious about the email is the fact that he's so arrogant that he seems to think he knows what's best for Nintendo and their future.
Imagine being in 3rd place with an ever dwindling userbase thinking you know what's best for the industry market leader. The hubris is off the charts.
What can you say, it just shows how incompetent these people are and that their failings have nothing to do with so called bad luck.
Poor brand image, poor game quality, running on daddyās credit card, depends on mass indoctrination online to keep the brand alive, dead last, and yet these bozos who are terrible at predicting the future think they know whatās best for Nintendo.
Imagine stanning for such a lack of talent.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Last edited:
Interfectum
Member
This is Phil:What I find most egregious about the email is the fact that he's so arrogant that he seems to think he knows what's best for Nintendo and their future.
Imagine being in 3rd place with an ever dwindling userbase thinking you know what's best for the industry market leader. The hubris is off the charts.
SmokedMeat
Gamerā¢
You really think selling 40-80 million copies of a game at full price is sustainable?
Topher
Identifies as young
If I had to bet on the sustainability of Nintendo vs Game Pass then my money is on Nintendo every time.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Haven't you heard? The new measures of success are engagement and merchandising! No one cares about stuff like sales and revenue anymore, that's old math! Time for you to get with the new math!
Badlucktroll
Member
I remember there was a rumor that Master Chief collection was coming to Switch. That would slap
Drell
Member
Did you start playing games in 2020?
SmokedMeat
Gamerā¢
Exactly. Sure Nintendo sells 20 million in a couple months or whatever, but whatās their engagement level? Whatās the oxygen level?
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
Your username should have been "high on weed smoke".
drganon
Member
Rhazer Fusion
Member
Microsoft buying any Japanese gaming company especially the established ones would be disastrous for the obvious reasons.
Unknown?
Member
Was just about to say this. Bethesda and Activision are about to get Biowared.
GHG
Member
You're right, they should give them away for "free" instead.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
mansoor1980
Member
love these new buzz words by phil and co:
1=oxygen
2=engagement
3=investment
4=social construct
5=nerf
1=oxygen
2=engagement
3=investment
4=social construct
5=nerf
SmokedMeat
Gamerā¢
GHG
Member
Man, the eventual reality of all of this is really going to hit some people hard.
Unknown Soldier
Member
Interfectum
Member
Yup. Phil has already acquired generational wealth for him and his family. He's prepping Sarah Bond to take his place and he'll golden parachute out before the new gen starts.
Last edited:
Saber
Member
We're reaching the age of "being obvious".
Honestly would like to see they trying again and we have another historical event to be documented: once again Nintendo laught their ass outs in response to Microsoft.
They could be even create a national day as commemoration for people to remember and laugh althogether.
Honestly would like to see they trying again and we have another historical event to be documented: once again Nintendo laught their ass outs in response to Microsoft.
They could be even create a national day as commemoration for people to remember and laugh althogether.
fart town usa
Member
MS is a trash corporation and XBOX is lazy to do real work.
They could leave the console business and we'd all be better for it.
That being said, if that Ghostwire 2 leak is real I might be forced to get a Series S. Bastards....
They could leave the console business and we'd all be better for it.
That being said, if that Ghostwire 2 leak is real I might be forced to get a Series S. Bastards....
SmokedMeat
Gamerā¢
Is this dude serious?
MasterCornholio
Member
Unfortunately he is. I wonder if Phil has the same mentality.
Last edited:
Flutta
Banned
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
MS is a trash corporation and XBOX is lazy to do real work.
They could leave the console business and we'd all be better for it.
That being said, if that Ghostwire 2 leak is real I might be forced to get a Series S. Bastards....
Even the haters want a piece.
fart town usa
Member
Never a hater, I have nothing against their consoles or games. Just a trash company that's proven themselves to be trash time and time again. I'd say the same about lots of studios but MS is in the news lately so it's topical.Even the haters want a piece.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Never a hater, I have nothing against their consoles or games. Just a trash company that's proven themselves to be trash time and time again. I'd say the same about lots of studios but MS is in the news lately so it's topical.
ps, Ghostwire 2, if real, will undoubtedly come to PC on day 1 as well.
fart town usa
Member
Yea, I just don't have room for a PC and can't be spending money on that. A Series X would be preferable but will probably go Series S for convenience cause it'll likely be plugged into a 1080p screen for the most part.
I do hope GW:2 is real though and doesn't suck. I thought the ending was really satisfying but if they manage to pull it off and the story is good, I'll honestly have no choice but to get another Xbox console. Last one I bought was a 360 but I actually still use the OG XBOX quite a bit these days. Got some games for it the other week (Wolfenstein, The Thing).
SmokedMeat
Gamerā¢
Your sarcasm meters must have RROD. I couldnāt possibly have made it more obvious.
Topher
Identifies as young
/s exists for a reason my man
SmokedMeat
Gamerā¢
Yeah, I shouldāve used it. I wasnāt expecting serious replies lol
Topher
Identifies as young
I should have asked if you were being sarcastic. I was thinking "did SmokedMeat get hit over the head?"
Dr. Wilkinson
Member
A mostly poor opinion piece. The fact is, we have no idea whether or not Nintendo being acquired by Msoft would be āgoodā or ābadā. Nintendoās lifeblood is proprietary hardware made to play proprietary software, so Iām not sure theyd be able to survive on a business model of just software & subscriptions. But that remains to be seen. Maybe? 
All we have to go on is how other acquired publishers and developers function under Xbox, like Bethesda. Seems to be mostly fine? Msoft seems to be mostly hands-off and just makes sure the lights stay on.
All we have to go on is how other acquired publishers and developers function under Xbox, like Bethesda. Seems to be mostly fine? Msoft seems to be mostly hands-off and just makes sure the lights stay on.
Sethbacca
Member
If these dumbasses got everything on their wish list Gamepass would need to eventually cost $50-60 a month just to hit a breakeven point or the games coming out would be standard mobile phone app fare.Microsoft out here single-handedly saving the gaming industry & keeping devs in check.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Last edited:
Flutta
Banned
Lol sureā¦ Thatās why iām the āonly oneā who doesnāt get it.
I'm nobody
Member
Ms will do the one thing we don't wantYeah this was never going to happen
Buy stock and then hostile take over
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Phil doesn't understand Nintendo. That whole Nintendo is taking a long time to realize their IP shouldn't be tied to their hardware statement . . . that's what makes nintendo nintendo, they can take chances and come up with new ways to play via their own hardware. Phil just thinks all gaming should just improve graphically/resolution/fps . . . some actually want to be innovative and have the freedom to truly try something new. New way of playing.
MarkMe2525
Banned
MS cares about what is best for you, that's why they created gamepass.
digoutyoursoul
Member
Is The Initiative and Perfect Dark still a thing?