Back in 1999, before the original Xbox, Microsoft tried to buy Nintendo. It didn't go so well.
Now, more than two decades later, Microsoft has published a letter sent between the companies at the time, revealing plans for what might have been.
The document was sent by Xbox's then-hardware chief Rick Thompson to Nintendo of America's then business boss Jacqualee Story, and discusses Microsoft's attempts to meet with Nintendo legends Hiroshi Yamauchi, then boss of the company, and Genyo Takeda,
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