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EA Founder Predicts MS Purchase of Nintendo
New site Xbox2News.com (via Evil Avatar) has up an interview with Trip Hawkins, founder of Electronic Arts and recent AIAS inductee. During the course of the interview, he is asked what he sees as the future course for Nintendo. His answer? "My magic eight ball says they will be acquired by Microsoft within five years." Tycho has commentary on the man's forcasting abilities in today's post.
Where was it when you were trying to figure out if making 80 Army Men games in 3 years was a good idea?
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How long before Super Mario Brother XP is released?
They'd like to break into the North American market, and what better way than opening up shop in Redmond, WA. More over they could get back to their roots with a Nintendo branded version of Freecell.
(dialogue after rescuing the Princess from King W32.MyDoom):
"Thank you, Mario, but your spyware is in another directory!"
I really think my disdain for Microsoft would turn into a full-blown rage. I'm getting angry just thinking about it.
Goddamnit, does their douchebaggery have no limits?
Wintendo!
Is Capitalism Good for the Poor?
You dolt. They *SOLD* Rare to MS because it was a losing studio.
What has Rare produced for MS since then? Absolutely nothing.
The Inquirer reports:
"Now he is safely retired, the 77-year old former Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamaushi is regaling Wired magazine about how he reverted to abuse to silence the mighty Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
Apparently Microsoft was making a bid to buy Nintendo for absolutely huge amounts of money. Vole was confident that Nintendo would take it. The Game Cube wasn't doing particularly well at the time and there was a lot of money involved. Ballmer himself showed up at the negotiations to have a quiet word.
However Yamaushi didn't like the deal, which he saw as a loss on a level similar to World War Two. He said he ranted a bit about Japanese values and identity but it went no-where. So in the end he said in Japanese "suck my yellow balls Mr Ballmer".
The translator looked embarrassed and was clearly not translating the phrase exactly, although Ballmer did smile at a sentence that included the word 'yellow' in it.
Frustrated Yamaushi stood on a chair, put his hands around his mouth and very slowly and in English said: "Hey Ballmer why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls."
He said Ballmer and team were speechless. They were as scandalised as if he had shown them a nipple at the Superbowl, he said."
"Je ne sais quoi."
I don't ever actually use any French, but had to learn it anyways. Damned 2 official languages... (I'm Canadian if you haven't guessed.)
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