[Financial Times] Why Japan Should Sell Nintendo - A sale of one of its crown jewels could be transformative for the country

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There are two reasons why, however hard it is to imagine the pathway to that event, a sale process of Nintendo would be transformative — not least because it might convince consolidation-resistant Japanese companies to seek scale and protection through mergers.

The first is that for Japan as a whole, the intensely high profile of a Nintendo sale would finally crystallise the sense of how undervalued many of its crown jewels really are — and how many smaller jewels are being sold to private equity and others at bargain prices. Microsoft would merely be one of many potential buyers: it is easy to imagine Disney or Apple stepping in, followed quickly by Google and Sony. Activision's deal valuation would look small by comparison.

But the greater reason is that Japan may itself need the sort of moment that it foisted on the US in 1989 when Sony bought Columbia Pictures. That acquisition, in all its boldness and ferocity of ambition, was disruptive in a way that was ultimately as valuable to a then-chagrined Hollywood as it was to Japan's sense of achievement.

Disruption is not something that an individual company or a market tends to wish upon itself, but there is a risk that Japan's stock market has painted itself into a corner where only disruption will do. Until this actually comes, the country could do worse than think about how positive a disruptive Nintendo sale might be.
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The opinion piece on FT is paywalled so I'll post this snapshot instead:

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After this "bounce back" year for MS Xbox.

Redfall - awful
Starfield - below mediocre
Forza - Redfall with cars

And they want to send more successful studios and developers there to die?

Just no.

This has got to stop now, not be pushed harder. MS are not positive for this industry. They've given up trying to make quality products at all.

This article should be a demand for MS getting out of gaming, not buying up more of it.
 
I hope this never happens.

Microsoft/Disney/Apple acquiring Nintendo and getting their gross ass "culture" entrenched on it would be disgusting.
 
Man with no familial ties to Japan (and lives in Japan) wants one of Japan's most prominent corporations to be bought by globohomo. Japan should deport any foreigners who push for global interests over domestic interests like this man.
 
lmaoo. FT is on one. Only way Nintendo sells, if their business is in the shitter.
 
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Nintendo is the only one left of the big threes that keep a mentality far from today's western standards, Japan and gamers should keep it really far from western acquisition. Imagine it beeing acquired by Disney, that's scary even to think of.
 
Kikorin said:
Nintendo is the only one left of the big threes that keep a mentality far from today's western standards, Japan and gamers should keep it really far from western acquisition. Imagine it beeing acquired by Disney, that's scary even to think of.
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Doesn't really matter who gets it. Nintendo as you know it, will die that day.
 
This has to be the dumbest shit I've come across in a very, very long time.

People like this should instantly lose access to the internet for a painful amount of time.
 
GHG said:
Well if its written by and/or approved by Phil himself then yeh, it probably is his career moment.

More care and passion went into this article than anything else they've put out this year.
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I cant wait for MS to leak the email proving you right. Embarrassing article and whoever was the clown to approve this right before the ABK and CMA decision, congratulations on being a useless fuck
 
Trying to buy a company and going through the regulation process is absolutely fine.

What M$ are doing with this covert behaviour is absolutely scummy and should be illegal.
 
I don't get the argument here. That Nintendo's shareholders should push for Nintendo to seek an acquisition, because it might benefit Japan's stock market as a whole?
 
US: Japan, please let us buy your companies how we can scale our shitty business practices.

Japan:
Seth Meyers No GIF by Late Night with Seth Meyers


The incredible IP value of Nintendo is a direct results of their doing things their own way, not copying shit like Ubisoft or ABK.
 
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