Microsoft already tried to buy Nintendo in the original XBox era and "was laughed out of the room, says Kevin Bachus, a director for third-party relations on the Xbox project. “They just laughed their asses off,” Bachus said to Bloomberg. “Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.”
With a Nintendo post-Switch and post-Super Mario Movie, the laughter should last at least two hours.
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Microsoft already tried to buy Nintendo in the original XBox era and "was laughed out of the room, says Kevin Bachus, a director for third-party relations on the Xbox project. “They just laughed their asses off,” Bachus said to Bloomberg. “Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went.”
With a Nintendo post-Switch and post-Super Mario Movie, the laughter should last at least two hours.