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Microsoft's Founder and Chairman Bill Gates today articulated his interest in buying out the legendary videogame publisher, developer and hardware manufacturer Nintendo, according to a German financial magazine.
"If Hiroshi Yamauchi phones me up, I will pick up at once," Gates explained to the German magazine WirtschaftsWoche during an analyst conference in Frankfurt yesterday.
Gates explained that if Nintendo's major share holder and former president Hiroshi Yamauchi was willing to sell the adored Japanese game company, he would immediately make an offer.
Yamauchi, while retired from his position as president two years ago, still owns a majority interest in the company he helped bring to prominence from a trading card company to the former leader and chief revivalist in the US videogame industry. He has more than earned a reputation for the ironclad control of his company, for his shrewd business practices, and for an immense amount of pride, which has been both a blessing and a curse for Nintendo over the years. It's our belief that Yamauchi's unlikely to sell, perhaps at any price -- especially to an American company.
Microsoft, in its attempts to get into the game industry a few years ago, made offers to buy both Nintendo and Sega, but was rejected on both accounts. Microsoft's decision to create the Xbox was believed to be a partial result of these attempts. Source: IGN
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