There is this story how Microsoft wanted/wants to buy Nintendo but was laughed out of the room. Is nintendo not a stock company? Couldnt Microsoft just buy 51% of all the shares? From what Ive seen the biggest shareholder is a japanese bank with 17%. Its not like somebody already owns the half.
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Even if all of the other complexities with buying a controlling stake could be overcome, there might be cultural issues at play that would make a transaction difficult – institutional Japanese investors might be very reluctant to sell control of a storied Japanese company to a foreign company.
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