Microsoft at one time was looking to acquire gaming companies EA, Midway, Square Enix, and even Nintendo. <\/p>\n
This is according to a Blomberg<\/a> feature on the origins of Xbox. It features insight from various people who had a hand in the original Xbox’s creation discussing the early days of the console. <\/p>\n In it, we find out Microsoft first approached EA, which quickly said “no thanks.” The company then set its eye on Nintendo. <\/p>\n According to Kevin Bachus, former director of third-party relations at Xbox, former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer set up a meeting with Nintendo to see if they would consider being acquired.<\/p>\n “They just laughed their asses off. Like, imagine an hour of somebody just laughing at you. That was kind of how that meeting went,” Bachus said. <\/p>\n With Nintendo’s dismissal of an offer, Microsoft went on to try and acquire Square Enix, which refused the offer for being too low. <\/p>\n The company then decided to try and bring Midway Games into the fold. While the Mortal Kombat developer was interested, a Microsoft acquisition would have taken the company out of the PlayStation business, according to Bachus. <\/p>\n It’s really a good read, especially if you are interested in a behind-the-scenes account of the early days of Xbox.<\/p>\n The post Microsoft once tried to buy Nintendo, EA, others<\/a> appeared first on VG247<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n But the House of Mario laughed in Microsoft\u2019s face.Microsoft at one time was looking to acquire gaming companies EA, Midway, Square Enix, and even Nintendo. This is according to a Blomberg feature on the origins of Xbox. It features insight from various people who had a hand in the original Xbox\u2019s creation discussing the early [\u2026]<\/p>\n The post Microsoft once tried to buy Nintendo, EA, others<\/a> appeared first on VG247<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Microsoft once tried to buy Nintendo, EA, others - ITTeacherITFreelance.hk","description":"But the House of Mario laughed in Microsoft\u2019s face.Microsoft at one time was looking to acquire gaming companies EA, Midway, Square Enix, and even Nintendo. Thi"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,16,86],"tags":[7052],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160935"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160936,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160935\/revisions\/160936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/assets.vg247.com\/current\/\/2015\/04\/xbox_original-600x259.jpg\")
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