Write what you are looking for and press enter to begin your search!
Live News
Microsoft Offered To Buy Nintendo At One Point; The Big N “Laughed Their Asses Off”
While we’re speculating whether Microsoft and Xbox are planning on making billion-dollar acquisitions of giant video game-making companies, we should look back at one of their major attempts back in 2000.
According to a Bloomberg report on Xbox, Microsoft once proposed buying Nintendo in order to lock in its first-party games for the Xbox. Nintendo basically declined the offer and laughed it off.
Former Microsoft director of third-party relations for Xbox Kevin Bachus & former head of Xbox business development Bob McBreen talked about the experience:
“Steve [Ballmer, Microsoft’s former CEO] made us go meet with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired. They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.
We actually had Nintendo in our building in January 2000 to work through the details of a joint venture where we gave them all the technical specs of the Xbox. The pitch was their hardware stunk, and compared to Sony PlayStation, it did. So the idea was, ‘Listen, you’re much better at the game portions of it with Mario and all that stuff. Why don’t you let us take care of the hardware?’ But it didn’t work out.”
At the time, Nintendo was working on the GameCube and was betting on that purple lunchbox. It didn’t pan out as expected and sold worst than the SNES. While Nintendo found success after that particular generation with the Nintendo DS and Wii, the early 2000s weren’t kind to the big N and was dominated by PlayStation and Xbox. Hindsight, eh?
By Lewis "lickety" Larcombe|May 18, 2023
With the announcement of Overwatch 2's PvE Hero mode being scrapped, you may be looking for another co-op PvE fix. Then you'll be happy to hear that S...
By Mr Toffee|February 3, 2022
Puzzle Quest, a series of puzzle games that's sorta like Bejeweled but with its own fantasy and damage-dealing mechanics that makes it gosh-darn addic...
By Lewis "lickety" Larcombe|May 25, 2023
Big news from the PlayStation Showcase 2023, Tower of Fantasy, the open-world MMORPG by Perfect World Games, is coming to PS4 and PS5 this Summer. Whi...
By Mr Toffee|February 2, 2024
By Team KKP|July 1, 2023
By Alleef Ashaari|August 2, 2021
By Alleef Ashaari|February 9, 2022
By Mr Toffee|February 2, 2024
By Team KKP|July 1, 2023
By Alisha Alix|April 26, 2024
By Mr Toffee|February 2, 2024
By Team KKP|July 1, 2023
Copyright @ Kakuchopurei 2024