Nintendo "laughed their assess off" when Microsoft tried to acquire the company in 2000

[thetonestarr]

Farsala said:

HoangNhatAnh said:

1.Nintendo must accept their proposal first, which is never.

2.Even if Nintendo agree, Japan law will prevent MS from doing that.

It's impossible, unless you can order the Japan goverment to change their law.

Weird, I heard from MS fans that they could easily buy Sony, Sega, SE, etc. so why not Nintendo? Huh, guess things aren't so cut and dry.

That's a matter of people thinking it's exclusively a matter of money, but even if it was, it's still not that simple. While MS may be worth that much, depending on how their value is invested throughout the company, they may not have even remotely enough available to make such purchases.