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.

Man I want to go back in time and be a fly on the wall for this meeting. I can just imagine Microsoft barely getting the words out before Nintendo representatives burst into laughter and didn't stop laughing until the Microsoft employees left. Imagine every nintendo employee laughing as they left the buidling. People in the elevator pointing and laughing at them and even the guards laughing them outta the building. Then imagine the news spreading to every employee and the whole of nintendo just having a good hearty laugh

Hahahaha,thats soo epic.

Hard to believe with a business intellect like Yamauchi's that he was failing Nintendo so hard with third parties and the home console business at this time... until the likes of Iwata, Kimishima, and Furukawa took it over from him.

Glad this didn't happen, the console industry would be so boring without Nintendo's unique hardware. There might have never been another Nintendo handheld since Microsoft showed no interest in the handheld department and there won't be any console that stands out and really brings a new innovative experience besides better graphics. The Switch, Wii, and even the Wii U are consoles that legitimately get me excited since I know they're consoles that'll bring a totally new experience unlike simple spec upgrades.

Plus who knows what could've happened to Nintendo's software being under control of Microsoft, a company known to neglect studios. I feel like Microsoft would've destroyed Nintendo's software by trying to make them more western and a certain way that'll destroy Nintendo games. Plus since Nintendo isn't motivated to sell their own hardware they might not be as motivated to release the best games, just look at Sega Post-Dreamcast.

Also, I'm pretty sure Microsoft first made the offer to then NOA President Minoru Awakawa, and he said that he initially thought the offer was a joke. So NOA executives were probably the ones laughing before word got out to Yamauchi.

It would never happen with Japan law anyway.

Well I’d say MS got the last laugh that gen as the original Xbox outsold the GameCube. Speaking as someone here who only had a GameCube back in the day.

It was in the machine, and the logo was on the console, but it wasn't the OS. Only around 11-12% of all Dreamcast games used it, and it was inferior to Sega's own proprietary OS. If you look at the games that used it, it's a small, unimpressive list, aside from the 4 Hello Kitty games.

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.