Nintendo Dismisses Microsoft Advances

On Wednesday a German financial magazine published that Bill Gates was interested in talking with Nintendo’s former president and backer Hiroshi Yamauchi about buying Nintendo. Today Nintendo issued an official response that it is, simply, not for sale.
On Wednesday the German financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche published that Microsoft head Bill Gates was interested in talking with Nintendo’s former president and backer Hiroshi Yamauchi about buying Nintendo. Today Nintendo issued an official response that it is, simply, not for sale.

“Nintendo is not on sale, and there is no such talk at all,” Nintendo public relations chief Yasuhiro Minagawa said.
Nintendo Co. Ltd. continues to profit from strong sales of its Game Boy Advance handheld hardware and software, as well as modest sales of its GameCube home console. The company this November will release the Nintendo DS handheld in the US, followed by a December release in Japan, according to sources. Nintendo is planning to showcase its next-generation console, codenamed Revolution, at 2005’s Electronics Entertainment Expo 2004 in Los Angeles.

“If Hiroshi Yamauchi phones me, I will pick up at once,” Gates told WirtschaftsWoche. It would appear that such a phone call will have to wait.

Source: CubeIGN