Digital*Firefly
08-05-2004, 05:25 PM
Source: gamesradar.com
Link: http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=31388&subsectionid=1587
[05/08/04 10:26]
Throwaway comment from Microsoft's Bill Gates sends rumour-mill into overdrive
Nintendo have categorically denied that they're up for sale after reports that Microsoft had expressed an interest in buying them. "Nintendo is not on sale and there is no such talk at all," says Ninty public relations boss Yasuhiro Minagawa.
The story apparently stemmed from a throwaway comment made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates during a cocktail reception after Microsoft's yearly financial analysts' meeting last week. He said that he would immediately make an offer to buy Nintendo if the company's former president and majority shareholder, Hiroshi Yamauchi, was prepared to sell.
This was subsequently reported on by German financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche, although the publication failed to mention the context in which it was said - it was, according to one onlooker, nothing more than an "admiring joke". The magazine also quoted Gates as saying, "If Hiroshi Yamauchi calls, he'll get me on the line right away." Suffice to say, though, Yamauchi won't be calling any time soon.
Link: http://gamesradar.msn.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=31388&subsectionid=1587
[05/08/04 10:26]
Throwaway comment from Microsoft's Bill Gates sends rumour-mill into overdrive
Nintendo have categorically denied that they're up for sale after reports that Microsoft had expressed an interest in buying them. "Nintendo is not on sale and there is no such talk at all," says Ninty public relations boss Yasuhiro Minagawa.
The story apparently stemmed from a throwaway comment made by Microsoft chairman Bill Gates during a cocktail reception after Microsoft's yearly financial analysts' meeting last week. He said that he would immediately make an offer to buy Nintendo if the company's former president and majority shareholder, Hiroshi Yamauchi, was prepared to sell.
This was subsequently reported on by German financial magazine WirtschaftsWoche, although the publication failed to mention the context in which it was said - it was, according to one onlooker, nothing more than an "admiring joke". The magazine also quoted Gates as saying, "If Hiroshi Yamauchi calls, he'll get me on the line right away." Suffice to say, though, Yamauchi won't be calling any time soon.