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Final-Fan on 17 September 2008
mariozeldametroid said:
Yeah, I read somewhere it went like this:

Microsoft: Nintendo, we're making a console for the next cycle, and we need someone to do a lot of the software. How's about $20 billion?

Nintendo: Hahaha, good one MS. That was a very funny and yet so believeable joke, haha...

Microsoft: uhm... we're serious?

Nintendo: really? Damn, lol dude... but sorry, no deal. Nintendo is a profitabble company, and not for sale, not even for $20 billion.

Not long after that, Yamauchi made some kind of reference comparing Microsoft's ''invasion'' in the console business to America in the Vietnam war.
Damn, Yamauchi's console-regime had fallen to the likes of Sony, but he was still SUCH a badass...

Good thing Nintendo didn't agree with the deal, seeing they're worth like 5 times as much as what Microsoft offered back then.

That sounds about right ... except the Vietnam thing seems kinda weird.

MS considered buying Nintendo, but only until Nintendo informed them of how foolish that idea was.



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ceaser92 on 17 September 2008

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ctk495 on 17 September 2008

One of this day microsoft will buy leoj then he'll become a 360 fanboy.



theRepublic on 17 September 2008

If this site is to be believed, here is how it went down.

http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2005/01/06/how-nintendo-boss-silenced-steve-ballmer

How Nintendo boss silenced Steve Ballmer

Balls in the other court

By Nick Farrell: Thursday, 06 January 2005, 9:10 AM

NOW HE IS safely retired, the 77-year old former Nintendo boss Hiroshi Yamaushi is regaling Wired magazine about how he reverted to abuse to silence the mighty Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Apparently Microsoft was making a bid to buy Nintendo for absolutely huge amounts of money. Vole was confident that Nintendo would take it. The Game Cube wasn't doing particularly well at the time and there was a lot of money involved. Ballmer himself showed up at the negotiations to have a quiet word.

However Yamaushi didn't like the deal, which he saw as a loss on a level similar to World War Two. He said he ranted a bit about Japanese values and identity but it went no-where. So in the end he said in Japanese "suck my yellow balls Mr Ballmer".

The translator looked embarrassed and was clearly not translating the phrase exactly, although Ballmer did smile at a sentence that included the word 'yellow' in it.

Frustrated Yamaushi stood on a chair, put his hands around his mouth and very slowly and in English said: "Hey Ballmer why don't you suck my tiny yellow balls."

He said Ballmer and team were speechless. They were as scandalised as if he had shown them a nipple at the Superbowl, he said.

It is nice to know that high powered board room meetings involving billions of dollars use the same language and methodology of a Kave piss-up. A copy of the interview can be found here but is probably illegal so you should buy a copy of the February issue of Wired.



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Onyxmeth on 17 September 2008
Vasot said:
Millennium said:You can bet that nothing like the Wii would ever have been released on Microsoft's watch.

 

And so what ?
Do you really like Wii ??
Wii has crappy graphics and most Nintendo titles are childish sh*tWhat's there to be missed ??

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Vasot on 17 September 2008
Onyxmeth said:
Vasot said:
Millennium said:You can bet that nothing like the Wii would ever have been released on Microsoft's watch.

 

And so what ?
Do you really like Wii ??
Wii has crappy graphics and most Nintendo titles are childish sh*tWhat's there to be missed ??

Thanks for the trolling Mr. Troll Master. Oh the troll bridge is also a toll bridge? Why here's my toll to the Troll bridge, a nice shiny, golden warning.

 

 

Learn what is a troll and learn to pass judgement equally...

I do not see you warn the PS3 trolls in this part of the forum by the way...



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MrBubbles on 17 September 2008

i think its a fairly safe to assume microsoft would not have released something like the wii. some people from nintendo werent even sure about it.



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Untouch on 17 September 2008

I'd buy the next playstation console if that happened.



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leo-j on 17 September 2008
ctk495 said:
One of this day microsoft will buy leoj then he'll become a 360 fanboy.

 

 One of this day?

What?

 

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tarheel91 on 17 September 2008
Vasot said:
Onyxmeth said:
Vasot said:
Millennium said:You can bet that nothing like the Wii would ever have been released on Microsoft's watch.

 

And so what ?
Do you really like Wii ??
Wii has crappy graphics and most Nintendo titles are childish sh*tWhat's there to be missed ??

Thanks for the trolling Mr. Troll Master. Oh the troll bridge is also a toll bridge? Why here's my toll to the Troll bridge, a nice shiny, golden warning.

 

 

Learn what is a troll and learn to pass judgement equally...

I do not see you warn the PS3 trolls in this part of the forum by the way...

Funny, I always thought a troll was someone who purposefully made inciteful comments in an attempt to anger others and create arguments.  You came into a thread talking about Nintendo standing up to Microsoft and flame the Wii in a totally off-topic comment.  Seems like trolling to me.