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Microsoft Nintendo acquisition hopes revealed by leaked Xbox exec email (www.rockpapershotgun.com)
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In the latest unredacted document oopsie stemming from the US Federal Trade Commission's efforts to stop Microsoft acqu…

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[-] notfromhere@lemmy.one 34 points 11 months ago

"I've had numerous conversations with the LT of Nintendo about tighter collaboration and feel like if any US company would have a chance with Nintendo we are probably in the best position. The unfortunate (or fortunate for Nintendo) situation is that Nintendo is sitting on a big pile of cash, they have a [board of directors] that until recently has not pushed for further increases in market growth or stock appreciation.

“I say "until recently" as our former MS BoD member ValueAct has been heavily acquiring shares of Nintendo and I've kept in touch with [ValueAct CEO] Mason Morfit as he's been acquiring. It's likely he will be pushing for more from Nintendo stock which could create opportunities for us.

Let the enshittification begin

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 17 points 11 months ago

Publicly traded companies was just the worst damn idea ever... growth for growth's sake is ruining everything.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Honestly to me the real shame is everyone's retirement is tied up in Wallstreet, but no one is personally voting, that's all done by investment managers. Even in the cases where people get their proxy votes, they mostly throw them away.

Retail investment is a quarter of the market, but only 32% of retail shares had their votes cast (vs 80% for the market as a whole), and on average only 12% of a firms retail accounts vote at all.

[-] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

If I own shares through a vanguard index, can I vote in each of those companies?

If so, how?

Someone could make a tool to make it quick and easy

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Depends what fund, seems like they are trialing a new proxy vote system

[-] 4am@lemm.ee 19 points 11 months ago

If Microsoft acquired Nintendo I will give up on all video games forever.

Like yeah Nintendo is a big bad capitalist company but, just, no. I can’t think of a better way to make gaming worse.

[-] Sethayy@sh.itjust.works -5 points 11 months ago

And Nintendo loves to make trash consoles, making them insanely simple to emulate. Microsoft has decades of cyber security experience and would probably lock that right down.

(no of fence to Nintendo consoles, if anything its what made them interesting)

[-] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Holy monopoly if that happened. Also imagine the damage to Japanese culture if one of their treasured companies was owned by a company in another country.

[-] smallaubergine@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago

Not very interesting news in my opinion. Lots of companies/CEOs want to acquire other companies.

[-] WheeGeetheCat@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Microsoft would kill Nintendo so quickly. I think they could do it in 10 years tops, shadow of its former self

[-] DannyMac@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

The gaming world's response to MS buying Nintendo would make the whole Unity debacle look like a mild inconvenience in comparison... and that's what I predict for the US, not to mention how Japan would respond to this.

[-] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 5 points 11 months ago

Archive link if you don't wanna deal with ads and whatnot:
https://web.archive.org/web/20230919083817/https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/microsoft-nintendo-acquisition-hopes-revealed-by-leaked-xbox-exec-email

Also, Firefox supports ublock Origin on Android (no clue about iThings, but probably everything is reskinned safari in apple land).
Pi-hole is also an option and while it isn't perfect, it can block many ads at the network/dns level for devices that can't support adblockers.
prepares shotgun while eyeing new smart tv suspiciously

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 months ago

Shatter this corporation.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

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[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 8 points 11 months ago

Sorry, I have an ad blocker on my phone so I genuinely have no idea if there are ads on a site or how bad they are anymore on mobile. Try flipping to reader view to see it without ads?

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

That's on you for not using an adblocker.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago

Oh really? It's not on the site for placing aggressive ads?

[-] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

If you don’t have an ad blocker installed though, seriously, I can’t recommend getting one enough. It’s legit like night and day how different it is. There are occasional inconveniences, but it is overall so, so much better for browsing QoL.

[-] Blizzard@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

As far as I'm concerned, all ads are aggressive. I don't want to see any ads, period. Using an adblocker is a norm. It's not only a matter of civilized online experience but also privacy and security (latest example). Of course you are not required to use one, but don't go online complaining you see ads.

[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 4 points 11 months ago

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Everyone else should use adblockers too.

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Would need a kind soul to verify with more trusted sources this shitty website allegations .

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