News Nintendo laughed at Microsoft's Xbox acquisition offer in 2000

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Steve made us go meet with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired. They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.
MCBREEN We actually had Nintendo in our building in January 2000 to work through the details of a joint venture where we gave them all the technical specs of the Xbox. The pitch was their hardware stunk, and compared to Sony PlayStation, it did. So the idea was, 'Listen, you’re much better at the game portions of it with Mario and all that stuff. Why don’t you let us take care of the hardware?' But it didn’t work out."

 
I think the only way to buy out Nintendo is give each employee a billion dollars. I can see them laughing MS out.
 
I wonder how different Nintendo would be if they had been able to buy Nintendo
 
Microsoft's Super Mario 360 just...doesn't have a ring to it. Well done, Nintendo, well done!
 

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