Not long ago, the Xbox console ushered in its 20th anniversary. Perhaps as a small tidbit from the commemorative event, Microsoft actually published a letter from the vice president of the company to Nintendo executives that year, the content was to persuade the other party to agree to the acquisition.
It turned out that in 1999, Microsoft was preparing for the first generation of Xbox consoles. At that time, the company’s internal concerns were mainly due to the lack of blockbuster game IP support. So someone had an idea about whether it could be solved by acquiring Nintendo. However, Ballmer, the then president, readily agreed to arrange a deputy to facilitate this.
However, according to Kevin Bachus, the former director of three-party affairs at Microsoft Xbox, Nintendo laughed crazy after hearing the idea of Microsoft’s acquisition during the meeting. In the first exposed letter, Rick Thompson, then vice president of Microsoft’s hardware, mentioned that Microsoft will work hard to make GameCube (code-named Dolphin) the best game console.
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However, it may be due to confidentiality. There is still a considerable part of the text in the text that is obscured and cannot be viewed. However, the recipients include Nintendo’s president at the time, Yamauchi Pu, and Nintendo’s Three Hardware Masters, Takeda Genhiro.
