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"Shortly before the console's release, Microsoft offered to buy Nintendo for twenty-five billion dollars. Nintendo of America's then president, Minoru Arakawa, originally thought the offer was a joke. But once Microsoft's intentions were clear, Nintendo took the offer seriously and discussed the deal in Japan over six or seven meetings. Microsoft wanted Nintendo to drop its console business and make games for the Xbox. But Nintendo's CEO at the time, Hiroshi Yamauchi, didn't like the idea and believed Microsoft lacked an understanding of the industry."
We dodged a nuclear warhead with that one.
And now, almost 20 years later, it is blatantly obvious that Hiroshi Yamauchi was, of course, entirely correct. Not that that has stopped Microsoft from force-feeding its fetid "understanding" of the industry down the throats of gamers and other developers (including Nintendo itself) during that time. *weary, defeated sigh*
So yeah... still slowly but surely plugging away at getting through the videos on the DidYouKnowGaming? Youtube channel. I'm up to the "within the past 3 years, so they show up as released '2 years' ago" videos, even though this one here is less than a month shy of being a full three years old. Not sure if I'll ever get fully caught up, at this rate.
