xevious

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Just seen this on the news

Its been reported today that the Japanese console giant Sony have bought the console division of Nintendo, for an undisclosed sum. Sony recently lost a court case to the Immersion Corporation, and was ordered to pay $82 million in compensation. Sony made a press statement about the takeover today, "This is a great day for video gamers", Sony Chairman Howard Stringer states. He goes on to say, "We have not decided what we aregoing to do with the nintendo technology, but its going to be a credit to the sony brand".

We also got a press statement from Nintendo chairman Satoru Iwata "Nintendo has decided to move forward, we've decided to do what Nintendo is best at and make games". Then added "Nintendo will not be releasing any more games consoles in the future, its all about the games from now on".

Sony have bought the rights to use the Nintendo technology, however they have not bought the right to use the name,logo, video games or characters of Nintendo. Microsoft chairman Bill Gates when told about this said, "We are not worried that Sony have bought the console division of Nintendo, Microsoft has the Xbox 2 coming out later this year, this will take over the console market and change gaming as we know it".


its a sad day :(

skept

Well look IMO nintendo 64 was a flop - however nothing can beat the greatness that was the SNES/NES with tonnes of titles with tonnes of replay value - they really were ahead of their times.

However, we should view this as a great day for nintendo - as surely sony will modify it and make it a hell of a lot better (ie: either build upon n64 to make it better or build their own console) so i hope they do the right thing by nintendo and let the developers of nintendo have a big say in what should happen

ButterMup

It looks like Nintendo is doing the same thing Sega did several years ago, in that they're moving away from hardware and becoming, exclusively, a software development brand.

It's not so much a sad day for Nintendo, et al, as it is a sad day for those of us like myself who have the fondest memories of such geekly pursuits as "blowing the dust" out of our original NES cartridges to alleviate the graphic-stutter problem all Nintendo systems were heir to, champing at the bit for months over news of the release of Final Fantasy III, and subscribing to Nintendo Power (the magazine which defined my pre-adolescent youth, IMHO).

The nostalgic part of me is dismayed by the news, but the practical part of me knows it's better this way. With any luck, Nintendo will be able to cut their losses and rectify their diminishing recognizability.
I hope it works out for 'em.

On a related note, am I mistaken, or does this leave only Microsoft and Sony as the sole competitors in the console market?

koЯnut

Man that is awesome ButterMup. Memories.

I had a trick beyond the classic "blow into it like a harmonice" routine. After you press the game down into the NES, Push to the left(on the cartridge) where the finger groove was. Then reset...bingo.

Life was simple then....I miss life back in the NES days.

jonwad347

april fools?

LPouttaLV

Well if it's true, it'll be cool to see games like Metroid and Zelda on a XBox 2 or PS3.

xevious

sadly, no april fools. and IMO yes, it MAY make it better, but i do so miss the days of befreinding the kid across the street just cause he had a nintendo.....id go over while he was gone and ask his mom if i could play it ^_^ she usually said yes too.....*sigh* i miss ff1

xevious

sadly, no april fools. and IMO yes, it MAY make it better, but i do so miss the days of befreinding the kid across the street just cause he had a nintendo.....id go over while he was gone and ask his mom if i could play it ^_^ she usually said yes too.....*sigh* i miss my old games, though the new ones do rawk.

HIJACKER

no because this thread wasn't started on april 1st dumbass. Go fuckin newb in another thread.


I do agree with Gates though.. the XBox2 is going to pack a serious punch.

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I believe that as much as I believe in flying recliners.

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vatoloco

I hear that you have a lot of blowing tricks



I just used a game genie and skipped the code screen, well after years of using your method

vatoloco

smart move for nintendo, they couldn't produce anything to put them ahead of anyone else, except for the timeframe

xevious

my flying recliner rawks. i use it to take my flying pig and pink elephants out. beleive it or not, as you wish.

HIJACKER

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I know the REAL story behind this....




Same thing happened last year.. Sony bought Nintendo....

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