Phil Spencer in 2020: "getting [acquiring] Nintendo would be a career moment"; Nintendo's future "exists off of their own hardware"

[DriftingSpirit]

This comes from the FTC document leak.

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[MrConbon210]

Tomorrow morning is going to be a wild day for news articles

 

[Ricelord]

they said the same thing about valve also .

 

[Phendrift]

Jesus Christ lmfao

Surely this couldn't have been written in the Switch era…

Edit: it was written 5 months after Animal Crossing: New Horizons and the Switch utterly blew up lol

 

[Catterson]

The way he talks about it kinda makes me feel weird. Capitalism monopoly moment if anything.

 

[Jakisthe]

In before someone claims "The Japanese government has laws to prevent the acquisition of cultural companies".

 

[Anth0ny]

yeah I was just reading through this

wild shit

 

[platocplx]

Very interesting they even considered some hostile ways of getting Nintendo. Also talking trying to get valve too. Like this wild.

 

[Shoot]

Holy shit

 

[iareharSon]

Confirms the WB rumors

 

[The Dave]

Holy shit

 

[Lotus]

Man what a day

 

[ASleepingMonkey]

They wanted to buy Warner Bros' gaming team too holy shit lmao

THE RUMORS ARE TRUE

 

[Red Kong XIX]

That would extremely suck

 

[Tsumami]

never gonna happen

 

[cw_sasuke]

Corny dude.

 

[GDGF]

Lol ain't gonna happen.

 

[Yinyangfooey]

he types so much like a boomer lmao like :-)

 

[Tsuyu]

It just business folks

 

[Catterson]

they said the same thing about valve also .

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Sans Artifact, Valve is one of the last studios l always adore because of how they're able to operate due to being private. Despite how long it takes for them to release, I'll always respect them. Scares me seeing stuff about people trying to acquire.

 

[Desma]

I don't want that

 

[Red Kong XIX]

In before someone claims "The Japanese government has laws to prevent the acquisition of cultural companies".

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This would needed to be approved by far more regulators than just the Japanese one. Doubt a move like this would come far.

 

[Meelow]

Microsoft needs to let go of this wet dream of buying Nintendo., Nintendo is becoming an empire of its own this gen, and being acquired by Microsoft would be a step back for them.

I love Nintendo and Microsoft platforms, and I DO NOT want them to merge.

 

[BananasWithGuns]

Could you imagine lol.

 

[cw_sasuke]

MS endgame becoming clearer now that ABK deal is more it kess done. It's sad.

 

[Phendrift]

"Nintendo's own future exists off their own hardware, and on ours which sells three times less"

 

[Electricb7]

eww

 

[Ombala]

It's very unfortunate for Phil that Nintendo has so much cash on hand indeed.

 

[ShinobiOfTheWind]

"When everyone is acquired, we all win a career moment."

- Phil Spencer
"GAMER"

 

[TimotheusNL]

What absolute hubris. Microsoft seem hell-bent on destroying this industry with continued corporate consolidation, I see. What a sad, dystopian future we're currently living in.

Anyone supporting this kind of talk isn't right in the head.

 

[Ascenion]

Very interesting they even considered some hostile ways of getting Nintendo. Also talking trying to get valve too. Like this wild.

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At the end of the day everything and everyone is an asset or a liability. Treat it as such, which means acquiring desirable assets by any means necessary.

 

[Hero]

I get its business but its really disgusting reading these e-mails and Phil (and other MS execs) talking about these acquisitions to just continue to grow Microsoft, regardless if its good for the employees that would be impacted or consumers.

 

[Sangetsu-II]

It really scary how they talk so casually about spending $30B like nothing.

 

[Atom]

sorry did uh

did anything get redacted?

 

[Renna Hazel]

No thank you

 

[Streusel]

:-)

 

[Soap]

This sounds so insidious, especially the closing…

 

[Harpoon]

Makes me feel gross just to read this kind of shit.

 

[stopmrdomino]

you are on an otherworldly amount of copium if you think they don't have conversations like this about every single large gaming company lmao

doesn't mean it's an actual consideration tho

 

[mrmickfran]

Yikes

 

[Milennia]

Phil is like me when I get a paycheck

Think of all the bullshit I can buy and then fail doing it

 

[Kyzer]

Fuck that

 

[CommodoreKong]

Yeah of course Phil would love to acquire Nintendo or Valve if the opportunity presented itself.

 

[DidactBRHU3]

Phil is not playing Kumbaya with anyone lol

 

[Rusty Jacket]

Holy crap.

 

[Afrikan]

"the unfortunate situation is that Nintendo is sitting on cash"

"...fortunate for Nintendo I mean!" 😆

 

[St. Elmo's Fire]

Phil Spencer: "...getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe a good move for both companies.

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No, I don't think so Phil.

Nightmare fuel.

Very interesting they even considered some hostile ways of getting Nintendo. Also talking trying to get valve too. Like this wild.

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Terrible.
Just terrible.

 

[Chopin the Third]

Monopolistic company wanting to do monopolistic things.

 

[Witchcraft]

Fuck this company so much, and fuck all the weirdos salivating over this nonsense.

 

[NinjaScooter]

WB not coming with any IP ownership makes sense why those talks must have tanked. At that point you're just buying very expensive studios.