Nintendo has a lot more money than they let on but they’re painfully slow to adopt new technology and I fear they’ll only realise how far behind they’ve got when it’s too late.Equally fantastic is the addition of VRR support to PS5. Sony cannot compete with Microsoft in terms of money, we’ve already seen that, and that is going to be more and more of a problem as streaming and Game Pass style subscriptions begin to dominate gaming. Whether they merge or Sony buys Nintendo (as happened with Sega Sammy, when one company was much bigger than the other) isn’t really important, what does matter though is that they’re two companies that are strongly invested in and fully understand games, and won’t just end up as the 49th most important subsidiary of Google or Apple. My headline has obviously given away what I’m getting at here, but I strongly believe Sony Nintendo should be next. All were once single companies before merging into one giant one, in order to better compete with ever larger rivals. That’s why so many Japanese companies have double-barrelled names: Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, Spike Chunsoft, Sega Sammy, and even Square Enix. It’s not ideal but it’s better than just being bought up as an impulse purchase by some uncaring multinational.

What does tend to happen with Japanese companies though is that they usually merge with others, in order to avoid an unwanted takeover. There might be a bit more red tape but it happens all the time and there’s no law against.

Many have noted that this sort of thing doesn’t tend to happen with Japanese companies and there is a misapprehension that it is impossible for a foreign company to buy a Japanese one.

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