How Microsoft Tried To Buy Nintendo 286
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 $25 billion in late 1999. By January 2000 however, talks dissolved and each company went their seperate way. Makes you wonder how the home entertainment industry would be different if they had gone through with it. Stories are at Gamers and Cube Europe."
What would have happened? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I don't think much would have changed.... (Score:2, Funny)
Crashes (Score:2, Funny)
I can see it now... (Score:2, Funny)
Nintendo franchised reimagined by Microsoft... (Score:5, Funny)
Pokemon: "Picachoo just evolved into the most stable, user friendly, Pokemon ever: XPachoo!"
Legend of Zelda: "Link, Hyrule can only be saved from the evil free office suite spread by Ganon by gathering the three pieces of Mircosoft Office to form the triad!"
Other Codenames Considered.... (Score:5, Funny)
Well, it could have been worse. Project Hiroshima anyone? It will obliterate the competition!
Re:Typical M$ (Score:1, Funny)
Reminds me of the Simpson's episode where Homer offers Internet access.
Pikachu for MS Office (Score:5, Funny)
If MS had bought Nintendo then Pikachu could be an MS Office Assistent.
THAT would be cool.
Whew! (Score:3, Funny)
Years ago, after reading about all the shifty crap that Nintendo pulled in this book [amazon.com], I started thinking of them as the Microsoft of Japan. Price fixing, exclusivity deals with retailers to lock out competitors, the lockout chip feature in their carts, lots of different stuff. Nintendo and Microsoft already have a lot of similar pages in their respective playbooks.
Microsoft was probably salivating at the thought of having a viselike grip on people's lives from the time they fire up their first video game as a kid, until the final time they turn off their PC before going on to die in their sleep later that night. Luckily for us, the X-Box is proving to be an also-ran, so we won't have to worry about it.
~Philly
MSMari~1 (Score:4, Funny)
First, Mario kills Luigi, who is unnecessary competition. Of course, he has nothing to fear from Bowser: his employer has proprietary rights to hellfire. Soon the Kuppas will be building Mario's
Re:What about sega? (Score:2, Funny)
This animation says it all... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Dr. Pierce discusses the Jewish Problem (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Xbox is in trouble (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft could start bundling XBoxes with Windows.
Re:Nintendo didn't need the money (Score:2, Funny)
They already have one...... called *Monopoly*.
Re:Nintendo franchised reimagined by Microsoft... (Score:3, Funny)
[Maybe that's the killer app the xbox needs