Flashback: MS Offered $25 Billion To Buy Nintendo In 1999

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S.T.A.G.E. on 13 September 2014

MS would've destroyed the creative fabric of everything Nintendo stands for. Thank goodness that didn't go down.

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Areym on 13 September 2014

Yamauchi, you are a wise man.

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Spade on 13 September 2014

:(
I wish it went down.
MS would have taken Nintendo to new heights.

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Slade6alpha said:
:(
I wish it went down.
MS would have taken Nintendo to new heights.

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pokoko said:
Just imagine that moment when Mattrick calls to say, "we want you to concentrate on Kinect."

They would have never needed it. Kinect was a reaction to the Wiimote, which never would have existed in this line because Nintendo would not have needed it.

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ICStats on 13 September 2014

I bet Yamauchi's family wish they had taken the deal, but who knows what would have happened by now.

It doesn't necessarily mean Nintendo as we know it would be gone. It probably means MS would never have made Xbox. Kind of like there would never have been PlayStation if Nintendo just used Sony's CD technology in the N64.

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Slade6alpha said:
:(
I wish it went down.
MS would have taken Nintendo to new heights lows.

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Slade6alpha said:
:(
I wish it went down.
MS would have taken Nintendo to new heights.

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amak11 on 13 September 2014

The_Sony_Girl1 said:

amak11 said:

The_Sony_Girl1 said:
NO NO NO! If that had happened my Dad would haven't bought an XBox for my 5th or 6th bithday! And I would have become a Microsoft Girl!

And I would have been a Microsoft girl too!!!! .... oh wait Im a boy

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