Gates to Yamauchi: If you let us buy Nintento, we will do it

Sorry to snap some out of their daydreams, but a Microsoft spokesman has already told that the German magazine interpreted one of Bill Gates' quotes wrongfully and that Bill Gates, nor Microsoft, have intentions to buy Nintendo.
 
Hey! Did Gates even say he is willing to buy Nintendo as a company?
I think he just meant he's willing to buy Nintendo, but Yamauchi would have to call him personally and offer him one.

The Nintendo he was willing to buy could've been Game Cube, Game Boy Advance, or even a pre-order of DS!
 
Bill Gates would buy the whole freaking market if he wanted to. Then rename Videogames into Videogates X (there's always an X). And make them so that the main hero looks, moves and sounds like him.
 
please, no more economics video games ;)

I can't stand having a game where the main character has to buy his way to finish the story :p
 
Nintendo is the oldest gaming company in the world. They have been around for more than 100 years. They would never sell.
 
RingWraith said:
Nintendo is the oldest gaming company in the world. They have been around for more than 100 years. They would never sell.
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Being old doesn't make them immune to take-overs.
It's not gonna happen, but i don't think that "being old" is the reason why they won't sell out.
 
RingWraith said:
Nintendo is the oldest gaming company in the world. They have been around for more than 100 years. They would never sell.
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What were they making 100 years ago....mario...? :LOL:
 
Deepak said:
What were they making 100 years ago....mario...? :LOL:
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1889 - Fusajiro Yamauchi, great-grandfather of the present president, began manufacturing "Hanafuda," Japanese playing cards in Kyoto.

1902 - Mr. Yamauchi started manufacturing the first playing cards in Japan. Originally for export, the product became popular in Japan as well as abroad.

1933 - Established an unlimited partnership, Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.

1947 - Began a distribution company, Marufuku Co. Ltd.

1950 - Hiroshi Yamauchi took office as President and absorbed the manufacturing operation of Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.

1951 - Changed the company name from Marufuku Co. Ltd. to Nintendo Playing Card Co. Ltd.

1952 - Consolidated factories were dispersed in Kyoto.

1953 - Became the first to succeed in manufacturing mass-produced plastic playing cards in Japan.

1959 - Started selling cards printed with Walt Disney characters, opening a new market in children's playing cards. The card department boomed!

1962 - In January, listed stock on the second section of the Osaka Stock Exchange and on the Kyoto Stock Exchange.

1963 - Changed company name to Nintendo Co. Ltd. and started manufacturing games in addition to playing cards.

1969 - Expanded and reinforced the game department; built a production plant in Uji City, a suburb of Kyoto.

1970 - Stock listing was changed to the first section of the Osaka Stock Exchange. Reconstruction and enlargement of corporate headquarters was completed. Started selling the Beam Gun series, employing opto-electronics. Introduced electronic technology into the toy industry for the first time in Japan.

1973 - Developed laser clay shooting system to succeed bowling as a major pastime.

1974 - Developed image projection system employing 16mm film projector for amusement arcades. Began exporting them to America and Europe.

1975 - In cooperation with Mitsubishi Electric, developed video game system using electronic video recording (EVR) player. Introduced the microprocessor into the video game system the next year.

1977 - Developed home-use video games in cooperation with Mitsubishi Electric.

1978 - Created and started selling coin-operated video games using microcomputers.

1979 - Started an operations division for coin-operated games.

1980 - Announced a wholly owned subsidiary, Nintendo of America Inc. in New York. Started selling "GAME & WATCH" product line.

1981 - Developed and began distribution of the coin-operated video game "Donkey Kong." This video game quickly became the hottest selling individual coin-operated machine in the business.

1982 - Merged New York subsidiary into Nintendo of America Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary headquartered in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A., with a capital of $600,000.

1983 - Built a new plant in Uji city to increase production capacity and to allow for business expansion. Established Nintendo Entertainment Centres Ltd. in Vancouver, B.C., Canada, to operate a family entertainment center. Raised authorized capital of Nintendo of America Inc. to $10 million. In July, listed stock on the first section of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Started selling the home video game console "Family Computer" employing a custom CPU (Custom Processing Unit) and PPU (Picture Processing Unit).

1984 - Developed and started selling the unique 2-screen interactive coin-operated video game "VS. System".

1985 - Started to sell the U.S. version of Family Computer "Nintendo Entertainment System" (NES) in America. The system included R.O.B. - Robotic Operating Buddy - and the games Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. Mario and Luigi became as big a hit as the NES.

(I am not sure, if it is 100% correct, but at first glance it looked ok)
 
ChryZ said:
Deepak said:
What were they making 100 years ago....mario...? :LOL:
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1889 - Fusajiro Yamauchi, great-grandfather of the present president, began manufacturing "Hanafuda," Japanese playing cards in Kyoto.

1902 - Mr. Yamauchi started manufacturing the first playing cards in Japan. Originally for export, the product became popular in Japan as well as abroad.

1933 - Established an unlimited partnership, Yamauchi Nintendo & Co.

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So officially Nintendo began in 1933...?
 
So officially Nintendo began in 1933...?
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Fusajiro Yamauchi founded the company "Nintendo Koppai" in 1889. The 1993 thingy was something about this partnership:

The popularity of the cards continued well into the 1900s, and the business expanded further in this time. Yamauchi struck deals with other companies in order to sell the cards in stores other than his own. Around this time, Nintendo Koppai also became the first company to produce and successfully market western playing cards in Japan. By 1929 Fusajiro retired and left what had become Japan's largest playing card company to Sekiryo Yamauchi, his son in law.

In 1933, Sekiryo set up a joint partnership company named Yamauchi Nintendo & Co., and in 1947 he set up a separate distribution company for the Western playing cards called Marufuku Co. Ltd.
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Source, interesting read.
 
Of course the age of a company has an effect on wether it would ever be sold or not. With age comes tradition and heritage, which can be very important (it certainly will be at a company like Nintendo). If you started a company a couple of years ago these things wouldn't be a concern when thinking of selling. But if your great grandfather started a company 100 years ago and passed it down through the family then that is going to be a very big deal when considering selling that company.

Nintendo are an extremely proud old company. Which is one of the reasons why it would probably cost many times what they are actually worth to buy them.
 
and if they were at selling point, no one would buy because of the inflated price :LOL:
 
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