Xbox publishes 1999 document with which they wanted to buy Nintendo

Earlier this year, it was known that, at some point in its history, Microsoft wanted to buy Nintendo over there 1999. Well, now the signature of Redmond shared a document Where these purchase intentions are reflected as part of the new virtual museum of Xbox.

This letter is October 1999 and unfortunately, it is not enough to read much of it because the large part of the document is obstructed by a text. Here we share what is readable:

Dear Jacques, I appreciate that you have taken the time to organize a meeting with Mr. Takeda and Mr. Yamaguchi to discuss a possible strategic partnership between Nintendo and Microsoft in future video game platforms. I understand Mr. Takeda's concerns about this possible association and will try [illegible] the guidelines that he has requested.

Subsequently, reference is made to ' dolphin ', the key name that the Nintendo Gamete had at the time. According to Kevin Bacchus, Ex employed Xbox, Nintendo only mocked at the idea of ​​being purchased by Microsoft at that time. A year later, Nintendo met with Microsoft Once again to discuss another possible association, but this did not work either.

Editor's note: This type of documents are always interesting to see, because even though we already knew that there was an attempt to purchase by Microsoft, we did not really have many details about it. Hopefully in the future we can have more information about this failed transaction.