On November 23, Microsoft launched its virtual Xbox 20th Anniversary museum and with it, revealed a letter from 1999 where the company made an attempt to acquire Nintendo. Suffice to say, things didn’t work out.
The newly published document was sent by Rick Thompson, Xbox’s hardware chief in 1999, to Nintendo of America’s business boss Jacqualee Story. In the letter, Microsoft inquires about meeting with, now-legends, president of Nintendo Hiroshi Yamauchi, and Nintendo’s hardware chief Genyo
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