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

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TheWPCTraveler on 13 September 2014

Ah, that Microsoft also took the time to fund what would be one of their greatest rivals today: Apple.

Who knows what could've happened with this?

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Panama on 13 September 2014

Yeah I know right, how awful would it have been if they forced Nintendo to focus on the Kinect. Almost as bad as if they made them focus on an inaccurate motion controller or a low tech tablet...woops :^)

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daredevil.shark on 13 September 2014

reggin_bolas said:
You mean we could have played Nintendo franchises on a true-HD device with standard third-party support and without the gimmicks? Dear lord, please turn back time.

True HD (Full HD) - 1080p and Xbox One cant do 1080p in most games.

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Cobretti2 on 13 September 2014

reggin_bolas said:
You mean we could have played Nintendo franchises on a true-HD device with standard third-party support and without the gimmicks? Dear lord, please turn back time.

guessing you mean PS4 then no their games would not be on a true HD device if it was on xbox.

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Cobretti2 on 13 September 2014

Panama said:
Yeah I know right, how awful would it have been if they forced Nintendo to focus on the Kinect. Almost as bad as if they made them focus on an inaccurate motion controller or a low tech tablet...woops :^)

Wii Remote is only inaccurate cause of your short comings or bandly implemented controls by the dev (i.e waggle for sake of motion). Where the controls were implented well and you were not one of those retards who didn't know how to hold a n64 controller correctly or you weren't a PS only gamer you were easily able to master a wii remote or any game controller for that matter.

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daredevil.shark on 13 September 2014

HoloDust said:

I want to play it.

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MoHasanie on 13 September 2014

Wow. $35bn is HUGE! MS is always ready to make big purchases. I remember back in 2008, they were planning to buy Yahoo for $40bn but Yahoo declined the offer. They would have wasted a lot of money if they did buy Yahoo.

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

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

Nintendo created their own heights. Microsodt buys heights, they've never really made any of their own. Think about it.

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NobleTeam360 on 13 September 2014

reggin_bolas said:
You mean we could have played Nintendo franchises on a true-HD device with standard third-party support and without the gimmicks? Dear lord, please turn back time.

Yeah I would of liked to have seen that happen, granted I was only 7 years old in 1999 and didn't care about gaming on the level that I do today.

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