As MS prepares to scoop up Mojang for $2.5 billion, kinda fun to sit back and think in 1999 Bill Gates and Microsoft offered $25 billion to purchase Nintendo. Gates apparently let it be known that if Yamauchi called that the call be transferred directly to him. 

Yamauchi did apparently take a few months to study the offer but eventually declined it. Taking inflation into account this would be nearly $35 billion today (wowza). 

Thank god for the No answer or else they may have ended up like Rare

There is a god

I cant even imagine my life if this happened.

You mean we could have played Nintendo franchises on a true-HD device with standard third-party support and without the gimmicks? Dear lord, please turn back time.

Just imagine that moment when Mattrick calls to say, "we want you to concentrate on Kinect."

HAha!

yes, because we all know what happened with Rare

First of all neither Xbox 360 nor Xbox One are true HD consoles. Go ask the PS4 it will tell you or better ask a PC what HD means (I had 1600x1200 gaming in 2003)

  Secondly. What is a gimmick?  A gimmick is something as higher resolution NOT something essential (for a new product) as Motion controls was for Wii.  Motion controls are the reason the Wii exists so its in no way a gimmick. Kinect is a gimmick because it was tacked on to an already existing system the 360 And on XBO it also ended up as gimmick because Microsoft dropped it.

::rollseyes::

No Wiimote was a gimmick for attacting sales.  It's not why Wii exists, it's why it sold a shit ton to casuals.  The motion controls themselves were usually weak.

The most disliked thing about games like Zelda Skyward Sword are overuse of motion controls.  Dual analog would have been a lot better than the motion control.

It's also basically been dropped from wide use on Wii U.