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Bladeforce on 17 November 2009
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Joelcool7 said:
LordTheNightKnight said:
thekitchensink said:
Microsoft attempted to buy Nintendo last generation. If they can't afford them, then Apple sure as hell can't.

As far as I know, that's a misunderstanding. Microsoft just was after some land in Redmont Nintendo owned, and Nintendo finally sold it to the when they realized they didn't have anything of their own to do with it.

I have an uncle who works for Microsoft and another who works for Nintendo (Via IBM) and I remember being told of Bill Gates personally trying to buy Nintendo. He offered Nintendo any sum of money they wanted, in exchange for the GameCube and Nintendo's studios/IP's. However Iwata President at the time said he wanted Nintendo to retain control of all of its products and IP's. However Microsoft did not share that view and wanted control of the company fully once purchased. So Nintendo said no deal.

Then right after that Microsoft went to the Stamper Brothers and bought their controlling shares of Rare, then forcing Nintendo to sell its remaining shares of Rare. Microsoft also began vigerous campains to aqcuire other Nintendo studios. Like Nintendo Canada's Silicon Knights after it left Nintendo , Microsoft liscensed it to develope software for Microsoft Game Studios.

Long story short Microsoft wanted Nintendo, Nintendo said no so they made X-Box and bought as many of Nintendo's studios as possible.


  That last line there...and people wonder why Microsoft are one of the most hated companies in the world



"...the best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and fished out listings of their operating system." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

"Hey, Steve, just because you broke into Xerox's house before I did and took the TV doesn't mean I can't go in later and take the stereo." - Bill Gates (Microsoft Corporation)

Bill Gates had Mac prototypes to work from, and he was known to be obsessed with trying to make Windows as good as SAND (Steve's Amazing New Device), as a Microsoft exec named it. It was the Mac that Microsoft took for its blueprint on how to make a GUI.

 

""Windows [n.] - A thirty-two bit extension and GUI shell to a sixteen bit patch to an eight bit operating system originally coded for a four bit microprocessor and sold by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.""