Microsoft publishes a letter of 1999 preceding its attempt to redeem Nintendo

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Nintendo's acquisition attempt by Microsoft at the beginning of the XBOX project returns to the news on the 20-year brand. The merit returns to Microsoft who himself published a 1999 document testifying to his desire to get closer to Nintendo in order to be better armed in his future battle against PlayStation, whose words are then perceived as a threat to the Occupation of salons.

The document raised by Kodak is unfortunately readable only partially, but it is Microsoft itself which put this small piece of history available to the public as part of its personalized virtual museum that each brand user can Browse at this address. Signed Rick Thomson, Senior Vice President of the Xbox at Microsoft, the letter was addressed to Jacques Story, who worked at Nintendo of America from 1990 to 2014 as a business manager, and reports a future meeting between Microsoft Ponies and Nintendo representatives, namely Hiroshi Yamaguchi and Gen yo Takeda.

At this stage still little advanced discussions, the letter seems to make only a state of a strategic alliance through which Microsoft would help Nintendo on its future Dolphin (code name of the Game cube) without renouncing the Xbox project, but we Know that Microsoft did a job proposal in Nintendo afterwards, just as he had tried to grab publishers like SquareS oft and Electronic Arts.

Steve (Ballmer) made us meet Nintendo to see if they were considering an acquisition. They just exploded with laughter. Imagine someone who makes fun of you for an entire hour. It's a bit like the meeting. Was held out, had testified Kevin Bacchus, then in charge of the delicate task of establishing relations with third party publishers.

We received Nintendo in January 2000 to work on the details of a joint venture and give them all the technical information of the Xbox. The idea was that their material was Name compared to the PlayStation. So the proposal was to entrust them the development Games while Microsoft would take care of the material, Bob Screen, then at the head of commercial development. According to the latter, there are still no less than seven appointments between Microsoft and Nintendo.