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

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Wman1996 said:

Classic Nintendo arrogance. There haughtiness is even more pathetic when you realize...

The Nintendo 64 underperformed
The GameCube was their worst-selling home console to date, and apparently barely broke even.
The Wii U tanked and the 3DS sold only about half of the units of the DS and even fell short of the GBA. All this after the titanic double threat of the DS and Wii.

Nintendo would laugh even if their hardware was failing and the same proposition was made. As long as they have billions in the banks and keep their executives rich, that's all that matters to them. I don't think Nintendo will be bought out. I just think they'll eventually stop making hardware in the 2030s or 2040s and move over to PCs and smart devices.

Wait, Nintendo was expected to know the future? If so, they probably saw the yen that Switch, DS and Wii were gonna make and that they would not lose any real money in even their worst years and they found everything even more funny. N64 wasn't as bad so of course Ninty was gonna laugh. You seriously think Ninty was in any position to even consider being bought out? Like of course they would've taken it as a joke from Microsoft, I would do the same. And Ninty probably treats their employees better than most companies and the top execs even gave up their salaries in their worst years so they wouldn't have to fire anyone and keep the investors satiated. They also work hard to avoid crunch and other than some stupid moves, they treat gamers fine as well.