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*!*Nintendo is set to buy Sega and Capcom!!*!*
Nintendo fans are the Lone Gunmen of the gaming world, always ready to greet whatever words escape the lips of Nintendo Japan with a million and one loony conspiracy theories. A passing comment by NCL president Satoru Iwata earlier this year about how difficult it has become to impress consumers with new hardware was quickly spun into an incredible yarn about Nintendo's withdrawal from the hardware business; so you can imagine the reaction to the company's "megaton" announcement - an announcement expected later this month which will, according to the company, have a massive impact on sales of GameCube hardware.
Not content with new games, price drops or online strategy announcement theories, the most popular Internet rumour is that Nintendo is set to announce that it has purchased both Sega and Capcom, and that both companies will be working exclusively on the GameCube as a result. The story would certainly be a "megaton" announcement, representing the pooling of three of the biggest creative companies in Japan to work on one console.
And the evidence? Sketchy, at best. Several forum posters claim that it was officially announced on some websites before being pulled only minutes later; some believe that current heavy trading on Sega's stock on the Nikkei (mostly due to parent company CSK re-evaluating its holding in the company) represents the beginning of a Nintendo take-over. There's also the fact that Capcom and Nintendo, in particular, have grown very chummy over the past year, with five new high-profile titles from the publisher joining the Resident Evil franchise in Cube exclusive land. Nintendo and Sega, however, are drifting further apart if anything - with Sega today revealing a brace of titles for the Xbox and PS2, with only a solitary niche-interest sports title for the Cube in the announcement.
*!*Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand!!*!*
If the concept of Ninty buying up two of the biggest publishers in Japan seemed a little far-fetched, get a load of this. The theory du jour among many Nintendo fans at the moment is that what the company actually plans to reveal as its "megaton" announcement is that in fact it, not Sony, owns the PlayStation brand.
Yes, you heard right; Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand, it's planning to take Sony to court over it, is guaranteed a win and then Sony will have to hand over all the cash it's made through the sales of the brand. Oh, and then the GameCube will be renamed to "Nintendo PlayStation", guaranteeing massive sales of it to the ignorant masses of punters who don't know any better.
The evidence? We're not actually sure. The origins of the story are unclear, but apparently lawyers studying the original agreement between Sony and Nintendo to develop a CD drive for the SNES (an undertaking which spawned the PlayStation project at Sony after its collapse) have suddenly noticed after all this time that they own the rights to the PlayStation brand. Riiiight...
Yes, people actually believe this. Presumably they also expect the megaton announcement itself to be made by Shigeru Miyamoto on the back of a flying pig…
Nintendo fans are the Lone Gunmen of the gaming world, always ready to greet whatever words escape the lips of Nintendo Japan with a million and one loony conspiracy theories. A passing comment by NCL president Satoru Iwata earlier this year about how difficult it has become to impress consumers with new hardware was quickly spun into an incredible yarn about Nintendo's withdrawal from the hardware business; so you can imagine the reaction to the company's "megaton" announcement - an announcement expected later this month which will, according to the company, have a massive impact on sales of GameCube hardware.
Not content with new games, price drops or online strategy announcement theories, the most popular Internet rumour is that Nintendo is set to announce that it has purchased both Sega and Capcom, and that both companies will be working exclusively on the GameCube as a result. The story would certainly be a "megaton" announcement, representing the pooling of three of the biggest creative companies in Japan to work on one console.
And the evidence? Sketchy, at best. Several forum posters claim that it was officially announced on some websites before being pulled only minutes later; some believe that current heavy trading on Sega's stock on the Nikkei (mostly due to parent company CSK re-evaluating its holding in the company) represents the beginning of a Nintendo take-over. There's also the fact that Capcom and Nintendo, in particular, have grown very chummy over the past year, with five new high-profile titles from the publisher joining the Resident Evil franchise in Cube exclusive land. Nintendo and Sega, however, are drifting further apart if anything - with Sega today revealing a brace of titles for the Xbox and PS2, with only a solitary niche-interest sports title for the Cube in the announcement.
*!*Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand!!*!*
If the concept of Ninty buying up two of the biggest publishers in Japan seemed a little far-fetched, get a load of this. The theory du jour among many Nintendo fans at the moment is that what the company actually plans to reveal as its "megaton" announcement is that in fact it, not Sony, owns the PlayStation brand.
Yes, you heard right; Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand, it's planning to take Sony to court over it, is guaranteed a win and then Sony will have to hand over all the cash it's made through the sales of the brand. Oh, and then the GameCube will be renamed to "Nintendo PlayStation", guaranteeing massive sales of it to the ignorant masses of punters who don't know any better.
The evidence? We're not actually sure. The origins of the story are unclear, but apparently lawyers studying the original agreement between Sony and Nintendo to develop a CD drive for the SNES (an undertaking which spawned the PlayStation project at Sony after its collapse) have suddenly noticed after all this time that they own the rights to the PlayStation brand. Riiiight...
Yes, people actually believe this. Presumably they also expect the megaton announcement itself to be made by Shigeru Miyamoto on the back of a flying pig…
It's more of a "Get padded walls and Gamecube Protection Game" plus, the whole Megaton thing was about a Japanese magazines comic getting turned into a game. It was just put through a game of Chinese whispers. That's all. Now, be off.
Ah, right, i thought Super Monkey ball would have been called as a sports game rather than rpg or shoot-em-up.
Usara wrote:
> Nintendo and Sega, however, are drifting further apart if anything - with > Sega today revealing a brace of titles for the Xbox and PS2, with only a > solitary niche-interest sports title for the Cube in the announcement.
THat makes the news WAY old, as not only are Sega about to release Super Monkey Ball 2, they have STOPPED production of sports games for the Gamecube ALTOGETHER.
> Nintendo and Sega, however, are drifting further apart if anything - with > Sega today revealing a brace of titles for the Xbox and PS2, with only a > solitary niche-interest sports title for the Cube in the announcement.
THat makes the news WAY old, as not only are Sega about to release Super Monkey Ball 2, they have STOPPED production of sports games for the Gamecube ALTOGETHER.
This already happend stupid. I bet there will be another stupoid mario game with like a super happy gun nstead of jetpac lol.
*!*Nintendo is set to buy Sega and Capcom!!*!*
Nintendo fans are the Lone Gunmen of the gaming world, always ready to greet whatever words escape the lips of Nintendo Japan with a million and one loony conspiracy theories. A passing comment by NCL president Satoru Iwata earlier this year about how difficult it has become to impress consumers with new hardware was quickly spun into an incredible yarn about Nintendo's withdrawal from the hardware business; so you can imagine the reaction to the company's "megaton" announcement - an announcement expected later this month which will, according to the company, have a massive impact on sales of GameCube hardware.
Not content with new games, price drops or online strategy announcement theories, the most popular Internet rumour is that Nintendo is set to announce that it has purchased both Sega and Capcom, and that both companies will be working exclusively on the GameCube as a result. The story would certainly be a "megaton" announcement, representing the pooling of three of the biggest creative companies in Japan to work on one console.
And the evidence? Sketchy, at best. Several forum posters claim that it was officially announced on some websites before being pulled only minutes later; some believe that current heavy trading on Sega's stock on the Nikkei (mostly due to parent company CSK re-evaluating its holding in the company) represents the beginning of a Nintendo take-over. There's also the fact that Capcom and Nintendo, in particular, have grown very chummy over the past year, with five new high-profile titles from the publisher joining the Resident Evil franchise in Cube exclusive land. Nintendo and Sega, however, are drifting further apart if anything - with Sega today revealing a brace of titles for the Xbox and PS2, with only a solitary niche-interest sports title for the Cube in the announcement.
*!*Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand!!*!*
If the concept of Ninty buying up two of the biggest publishers in Japan seemed a little far-fetched, get a load of this. The theory du jour among many Nintendo fans at the moment is that what the company actually plans to reveal as its "megaton" announcement is that in fact it, not Sony, owns the PlayStation brand.
Yes, you heard right; Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand, it's planning to take Sony to court over it, is guaranteed a win and then Sony will have to hand over all the cash it's made through the sales of the brand. Oh, and then the GameCube will be renamed to "Nintendo PlayStation", guaranteeing massive sales of it to the ignorant masses of punters who don't know any better.
The evidence? We're not actually sure. The origins of the story are unclear, but apparently lawyers studying the original agreement between Sony and Nintendo to develop a CD drive for the SNES (an undertaking which spawned the PlayStation project at Sony after its collapse) have suddenly noticed after all this time that they own the rights to the PlayStation brand. Riiiight...
Yes, people actually believe this. Presumably they also expect the megaton announcement itself to be made by Shigeru Miyamoto on the back of a flying pig…
Nintendo fans are the Lone Gunmen of the gaming world, always ready to greet whatever words escape the lips of Nintendo Japan with a million and one loony conspiracy theories. A passing comment by NCL president Satoru Iwata earlier this year about how difficult it has become to impress consumers with new hardware was quickly spun into an incredible yarn about Nintendo's withdrawal from the hardware business; so you can imagine the reaction to the company's "megaton" announcement - an announcement expected later this month which will, according to the company, have a massive impact on sales of GameCube hardware.
Not content with new games, price drops or online strategy announcement theories, the most popular Internet rumour is that Nintendo is set to announce that it has purchased both Sega and Capcom, and that both companies will be working exclusively on the GameCube as a result. The story would certainly be a "megaton" announcement, representing the pooling of three of the biggest creative companies in Japan to work on one console.
And the evidence? Sketchy, at best. Several forum posters claim that it was officially announced on some websites before being pulled only minutes later; some believe that current heavy trading on Sega's stock on the Nikkei (mostly due to parent company CSK re-evaluating its holding in the company) represents the beginning of a Nintendo take-over. There's also the fact that Capcom and Nintendo, in particular, have grown very chummy over the past year, with five new high-profile titles from the publisher joining the Resident Evil franchise in Cube exclusive land. Nintendo and Sega, however, are drifting further apart if anything - with Sega today revealing a brace of titles for the Xbox and PS2, with only a solitary niche-interest sports title for the Cube in the announcement.
*!*Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand!!*!*
If the concept of Ninty buying up two of the biggest publishers in Japan seemed a little far-fetched, get a load of this. The theory du jour among many Nintendo fans at the moment is that what the company actually plans to reveal as its "megaton" announcement is that in fact it, not Sony, owns the PlayStation brand.
Yes, you heard right; Nintendo owns the PlayStation brand, it's planning to take Sony to court over it, is guaranteed a win and then Sony will have to hand over all the cash it's made through the sales of the brand. Oh, and then the GameCube will be renamed to "Nintendo PlayStation", guaranteeing massive sales of it to the ignorant masses of punters who don't know any better.
The evidence? We're not actually sure. The origins of the story are unclear, but apparently lawyers studying the original agreement between Sony and Nintendo to develop a CD drive for the SNES (an undertaking which spawned the PlayStation project at Sony after its collapse) have suddenly noticed after all this time that they own the rights to the PlayStation brand. Riiiight...
Yes, people actually believe this. Presumably they also expect the megaton announcement itself to be made by Shigeru Miyamoto on the back of a flying pig…