In the summer of 2020, Xbox’s Phil Spencer wrote to Microsoft’s chief marketing officer, Takeshi Numoto about the possibility of Microsoft buying Nintendo.
"At some point, getting Nintendo would be a career moment, and I honestly believe a good move for both companies,” said Spencer. “It's just taking a long time for Nintendo to see that their future exists off their own hardware."
Yes, it may indeed take a long time for Nintendo to see their future exists off their own hardware, given that the Nintendo Switch has sold 129.5 million units and is the third best-selling console in history. Xbox One estimates topped out around 58 million. Current Series X/S estimates are closer to 20 million .that 20 years ago, Steve Balmer had Microsoft employees go meet to Nintendo to see if they might want to be acquired. “They just laughed their asses off.
Again, the pitch back then was a long the lines of Nintendo first party games coming to more powerful Microsoft hardware. But they didn’t bite back then. And there’s probably nothing to indicate they would bite now.trying to buy up huge chunks of the industry indefinitely, which raises anti-trust concerns.
As for Valve? There’s less detail on that, but it would be far cheaper a purchase, possibly only around $7-10 billion according to estimates. And it’s unclear if it would be more open to the idea than Nintendo. Though perhaps you could not beI am very curious how and if Microsoft and Nintendo respond to this one, as that’s a large admission and significant leak.
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