Moore: Microsoft was “completely fixated on Sony”

[tuoyo]

leo-j said:

theRepublic said:

reask said:

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“[Steve Ballmer] wanted my attitude, he didn’t care what I’d achieved at Sega, he wanted to know how I was going to win for Microsoft, how we were going to take on Sony, how would we compete with – or acquire – Nintendo.

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Seriously?  Acquire Nintendo?  hahahahhahahhahahahahaha

To even bring that up is ridiculous.

 

 Why is it ridiculous?

 

Because they could never afford Nintendo (the value of the Mario IP alone would be crushing even for Microsoft) and the Nintendo major shareholders would never ever agree to a sale to a US company/competitor.