Microsoft courts Nintendo
by Andrew Champion
11:38 AM on August 4, 2004
Like any boy from the late 1980s, Bill Gates wants Nintendo, but in true
Microsoft fashion, that means
all
of it. Speaking to a German magazine, Gates says that Microsoft is
still pursuing Nintendo, and that he'd be ready with an offer the moment
Hiroshi Yamauchi, Nintendo's largest shareholder, expressed interest in
selling. Despite the suitor, Yamauchi has rejected Microsoft overtures
before, and it is expected that he will keep his company in the family.