It doesn’t just seem to be hopes, but actually taking steps in acquiring equity to play the long game:
“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 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. Without that catalyst I don't see an angle to a near term mutually agreeable merger of Nintendo and MS and I don't think a hostile action would be a good move so we are playing the long game.”
The hubris is also palpable:
“It's just taking a long time for Nintendo to see that their future exists off of their own hardware. A long time.... :-)”
“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 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. Without that catalyst I don't see an angle to a near term mutually agreeable merger of Nintendo and MS and I don't think a hostile action would be a good move so we are playing the long game.”
The hubris is also palpable:
“It's just taking a long time for Nintendo to see that their future exists off of their own hardware. A long time.... :-)”
And then there’s the matter of them contemplating buying TikTok: https://www.threads.net/@techemails/post/CxYy4BdS99n/
MS/Spencer is acting like a teenager that just got their hands on their parent’s credit card.
The message is clear, they’re on the lookup to buy all kinds of stuff in an attempt to conglomerate everything under the MS umbrella.
All the nonsense uttered to appease regulators during the BGS and ABK is just that, nonsense to reassure regulators.