It occurs now to me that there is at least a sound reason for MS to target Nintendo: MS feared Sony attempts to seize living room computing and managed to hinder them (with a not so little help by Sony itself), now, with the current market share, Sony won't be a threat on that front for a few years, even if it should grow, so for the next years MS just need to keep it at bay. OTOH, with almost 50% market share, and growing, and a wild creativity, Nintendo could be an immediate threat should it want to grab the living room, MS could even do moves that make it lose money (for example giving consoles away almost for free and buying big franchises' exclusives and lots of gaming related patents for insane amounts of money) just to damage Nintendo, to warn it to content itself of its garden and avoid stepping into which MS considers its own by divine right. And we shouldn't think, and Nintendo shouldn't too, that shareholders would disapprove, they have been quite content with MS method up until now, spending a lot to grab enough market and put as many competitors as possible out of business, tying users, then squeeze them almost forever for a lot more money than the initial investment (for example at the current market loss MS would squeeze more than 50% PC users for more than 30 years anyway, with total users growing, so that MS would grow anyway even losing market share).
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