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curl-6 said:
Tober said:

Buy Nintendo and rebrand the Switch2 as XBOX. That would do it.

Never going to happen though.

They actually tried that once and got laughed out of the room:

https://www.howtogeek.com/783377/dont-worry-microsoft-already-tried-to-buy-nintendo-and-failed/

Apparently Phil Spencer had some leaked emails where he still wanted to give that a go.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/19/23880146/phil-spencer-microsoft-xbox-acquiring-nintendo

So they still wanted to do that even as of a few years ago. I have no idea if it would have led to less problems than buying Activision led to, but it would have def been worse for gaming overall unless it somehow led to Nintendo running off with X-Box's stuff and leaving Microsoft in some strange reaction.....

Though that's also a world where Doom and Bethesda Games are all exclusively on Nintendo, and um....that would be hilarious but probably damage the psyche of PC gamers worse than the Epic Store.



The Democratic Nintendo fan....is that a paradox? I'm fond of one of the more conservative companies in the industry, but I vote Liberally and view myself that way 90% of the time?