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How Microsoft Tried To Buy Nintendo

Posted by timothy on from the with-clams-dough-bread-and-smackers dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "A new book, Opening the Xbox: Inside Microsoft's Plan to Unleash an Entertainment Revolution discusses Microsoft's plans to buy Nintendo for $25 billion in late 1999. By January 2000 however, talks dissolved and each company went their seperate way. Makes you wonder how the home entertainment industry would be different if they had gone through with it. Stories are at Gamers and Cube Europe."

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  1. Hmmmm... by NickRob · · Score: 0, Troll

    Makes you wonder if Halo would've been as disappointing.

  2. Thank God by NSupremo · · Score: 0, Troll

    That this did not happen.

    Buy the GOOD stuff up and make people buy SHIT. That's microsofts motto.

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  3. we are by EricBoyd · · Score: 0, Troll

    Microsoft of Borg. Resistance is futile! You will be assimilated into our "XBox" plans...

    Websurfing done right! StumbleUpon

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  4. SuperMicrosoftWorld by meth88 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Its a mee!!! Microsoft Bawb!!!!

  5. Re:MS is One F***ed Up Company by pod · · Score: 0, Troll
    December 7 (Pearl Harbor Day, for the especially dense)

    Or for the non-Americans. Or the youngins, who, were it not for Pearl Harbour The Movie, would have no idea what happened on Dec 7.

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