I dont know I am asking? I think it would be amazing to put Apple and Nintendo together. Gamers rejoice, your mac is now a Gamecube.
Wouldnt it be cool?
I know this has been mentioned before, but what do you think?
[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: Macintosh ]</p>
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<strong>I dont know I am asking? I think it would be amazing to put Apple and Nintendo together. Gamers rejoice, your mac is now a Gamecube.
Wouldnt it be cool?
I know this has been mentioned before, but what do you think?</strong><hr></blockquote>
why would either company benefit? nintendo sells more gamecubes than apple sells macs. and apple's core market isn't exactly gaming and buying nintendo would be a bad business decision for them.
don't see the connection
Nintendo would benifit because if every Mac was Gamecube compatible it would increase Nintendo's market share. Both systems are based on the PPC, so why not?
Is it even a financial possibility?
<strong>Both companies are similar in that they are hardware and software. Their business models are very similar.
Nintendo would benifit because if every Mac was Gamecube compatible it would increase Nintendo's market share. Both systems are based on the PPC, so why not?
Is it even a financial possibility?</strong><hr></blockquote>
tons of companies make the hardware/software. just because they both do that doesn't mean they are a match made in heaven.
I don't think many people have a problem dishing out 199 for a gamecube if they want a nintendo game.
and the hype would die out eventualy. look at VGS. Play PS games on your mac. great the first few months but interest died down because console games are not meant to be played on the computer and it just didn't make sense. (Still use VGS BTW, works well, wish an OS X version was coming)
Plus, as it stands now, the Mac has more games out than the Game Cube.
I don't see why Apple would be interested in buying Nintendo (as gaming is not the main reason to buy a computer), or why Nintendo would want to be aquired (they completely dominate the handheld market).
Just because both use PPC processors doesn't mean they were meant to be together.
edit: applenut also makes a lot of good points.
[ 02-05-2002: Message edited by: Fran441 ]</p>
I am not the only one with this "brain fart."
What the hell are you talking about?
Macintosh, easy on the topic splurging. You're gonna make the server crap out.
<strong>I also heard that the new iMac was going to be Gamecube compatible, remember?</strong><hr></blockquote>
That possibility is EXTREMELY UNLIKELY. Even if Apple's standard GPU was up to snuff, you do know that GameCube discs spin the opposite direction as DVDs, right?
Company Market Capitalization
Apple $8.695B
Nintendo $26.7B
...
Best Buy $14.5B
Microsoft $325B
Nvidia $8.966B
The question is not "could Apple buy Nintendo", but "Would Nintendo notice if it bought Apple?"
You will note that Nvidia is a somewhat larger corporation than Apple. That's a sobering thought.
But market cap isn't the best way to judge a company's size.
- 3 or 4 years ago, Apple's market cap was 1 - 2 billion. Now it is around 9 billion. Is it a 4 times larger corporation in terms of employees, revenues, assets, equity, etc? No.
- Apple has a yearly revenue of almost 6 billion. NVidia of around 1 billion. Apple has almost 10,000 employees. Nvidia has less than 1,000. But Apple's share price is about 2.5 times book value. NVidia's is about 15 times book value. It would seem that in terms of revenue and head count, Apple is much larger than NVidia. In terms of market cap, NVidia is a bit bigger. If Apple's share price was 15 times book value, its market cap would be around $150 billion. Apple's low stock price reflects low investor confidence rather than its "size".
- Gateway has about the same amount of revenues at Apple. Has more than double the employees. But its market cap is 1.53 billion. Indeed, it is trading at around book value right now. Is Gateway a bigger company in some sense of word? Yes. Is it 5 times smaller as the market cap would imply? No.
Don't get me wrong. Market cap is an important figure, and very relevant when discussing company buyouts and mergers. But using market cap to determine the "size" of a company is not meaningful.
[Edit: grammar]
[ 02-06-2002: Message edited by: PipelineStall ]</p>
Ultimately, though, look at the title of the thread. Market cap is the answer.
[ 02-06-2002: Message edited by: Jeremiah Rich ]</p>
<strong>I don't disagree with any of your analysis, PipelineStall, and you're certainly correct that company "size" is a vague concept.
Ultimately, though, look at the title of the thread. Market cap is the answer.</strong><hr></blockquote>
[quote] Originally posted by pipelinestall:
<strong> It depends how you define company "size". All those companies are larger than Apple in terms of their market cap. Indeed, that's reflective of how much money Apple would need to "buy" Nintendo. </strong><hr></blockquote>
colorclassic as you can see, pipelinestall addressed that his analysis DID in fact relate to the title, his response was more to correct your assumption(or misinterpretation) of the market cap=company size statement.
BTW pipelinestall that was a great post, really informative and well thought out