# Apple to buy Nintendo? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 9, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111 "2006-06-09T11:53:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Ovrwrkd](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/ovrwrkd/32/7586_2.png) [@Ovrwrkd](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Ovrwrkd)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 11:53am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/1 "2006-06-09T11:53:26Z")
Purely rumor right now and I really can’t put too much trust behind the sources… but either way, if something like this were to happen, it would be one hell of a curve ball thrown at the gamine industry. > [@Slashdot](#): > > CNET wonders if 'Apple is about to frag the gaming community with a revelation that could shake Microsoft to its core: Apple will buy Nintendo. What could be more quintessentially left-field Apple behaviour than buying out the U.S.‘s number three games console manufacturer?’ The article goes on to compare the companies, saying ‘both have followings whose brand dedication verges on the religiously devout’ and design styles that are so similar that ‘the Nintendo DS Lite practically looks like Jonathan Ive built it.’ The writer says an Apple and Nintendo merger will ‘penetrate the mainstream consumer market with Macintosh computers’. The possible outcome of a merger would be a console based around the Mac Mini. As for whether Apple have the cash to pull it off: ‘Cisco was rumoured to be looking at a purchase of Nintendo earlier in the year, so the idea of Nintendo being bought is not outlandish in itself. Apple’s market cap is $51.7bn (Nintendo’s is $23.1bn)’ [http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49276362,00.htm](http://crave.cnet.co.uk/digitalmusic/0,39029432,49276362,00.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 12:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/2 "2006-06-09T12:03:40Z")
that would suck… then you’d never be able to get games/apps for it 😛 ---
**Author:** ![RobHimself](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e480ec/32.png) [@RobHimself](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/RobHimself)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 2:51pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/3 "2006-06-09T14:51:44Z")
Seriously and i dont think i could stand a paddle with 1 button. But it runs photoshop so well… ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Stevil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@Dr.Stevil](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Dr.Stevil)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 3:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/4 "2006-06-09T15:49:53Z")
^ :lol: ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 4:58pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/5 "2006-06-09T16:58:37Z")
:lol: ---
**Author:** ![amd3dnow3](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/amd3dnow3/32/7410_2.png) [@amd3dnow3](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/amd3dnow3)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/6 "2006-06-09T19:35:01Z")
lol, is it me or is apple always following oranges step(xbox,ms) ---
**Author:** ![SI01](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/si01/32/7187_2.png) [@SI01](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/SI01)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:38pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/7 "2006-06-09T19:38:48Z")
It’d never happen. ---
**Author:** ![Bacon](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bacon/32/7230_2.png) [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 7:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/apple-to-buy-nintendo/13111/8 "2006-06-09T19:43:19Z")
Seriously what is with all the stupid rumors on slashdot making it into news?