Microsoft is publishing a letter sent when it tried to acquire Nintendo
Microsoft reveals letter from that time it failed to buy Nintendo • Eurogamer.net
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-11-24-microsoft-reveals-letter-from-that-time-it-failed-to-buy-nintendo
From 2000 to 2001, just before the launch of the first Xbox, Microsoft considered acquiring Nintendo, according to the testimony of those involved at the time.
It is clear that Microsoft was considering acquiring Nintendo 20 years ago-GIGAZINE
This time it was released in 1999 from Rick Thompson, then hardware chief of Microsoft's Xbox team, to Jacquery Story, the head of Nintendo's American subsidiary Nintendo of America. This is the letter sent.
The image of the letter published at the Xbox Museum cannot be read in full because it says 'Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo' from above, but at the beginning of the letter, the representative of Nintendo at that time the Board of directors was president Hiroshi Yamauchi was Mr. & development Division of Nintendo Genyo Takeda gratitude to the story, who was setting a meeting with have been written.
Microsoft, which was dismissed by Nintendo's acquisition proposal, presented a strategic partnership to Nintendo that 'Nintendo will be in charge of software development and Microsoft will be in charge of hardware development', and the meeting was held again in January 2000. I did. 'I understand Takeda's concerns about the potential for a strategic partnership between Nintendo and Microsoft,' Thompson said in a letter, stating that he is willing to meet Nintendo's demands.
Also, in the public part of the letter, it was written that 'Microsoft has launched the'Xbox project'to develop game hardware' and 'The Xbox project will help Dolphin to be the best'. This 'Dolphin' is the code name for the Nintendo GameCube that Nintendo was developing with Matsushita Electric at the time. However, the negotiations broke down, and the proposal for a strategic partnership was rejected by Nintendo.
In addition, various materials related to Xbox such as the concept design picture of Xbox before development and the photograph of the prototype of Xbox are released at the Xbox Museum, and you can browse it for free.
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