Moore: Microsoft was “completely fixated on Sony”

[Jordahn]

tuoyo said:

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.

 

 

Actually, it's not rediculous because Microsoft trying to aquire Nintendo actually happened.  Whether Nintendo had any intentions or not, it was only when Microsoft made clear that they wanted Nintendo to stop making consoles to make software for
the at the time up coming Xbox.  That's when Nintendo told Microsoft to take a hike.