Nintendo is d00med, OH NOEZ

[Jonbo298]

February 23, 2005 - In an interview with the site Xbox2 News, Electronic Arts and 3DO founder Trip Hawkins suggested that he believed Nintendo would not be a hardware player five years down the road. The outspoken executive even indicated what he thought might become of the Big N.

Asked what he thought about Nintendo's future, Hawkins replied: "My magic eight ball says they will be acquired by Microsoft within five years."

Nintendo itself has repeatedly dismissed old rumors that it was thinking about becoming a software-only company, or that it might team up with another publisher to make hardware and games.

Last August, Microsoft head Bill Gates told German financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche that he would pick up the phone if Nintendo's former president Hiroshi Yamauchi called. However, days later Nintendo issued an official response, which read: "Nintendo is not for sale and there is no such talk at all."

http://cube.ign.com/articles/590/590427p1.html

People have the right to opinions. I may not agree with him but if Nintendo does ever get bought out my Microsoft, I'm done with Console Gaming. Mainly because it wont ever feel the same without a company who has been around for so long to see ups and downs in the industry. Unlike Sony and MS who have yet to feel the "brunt" of the Industry and from my view think its a Yellow Brick Road.