Microsoft talks about Nintendo's haughty reaction to the offer to buy the company

During the launch of its first console, the original Xbox, Microsoft tried to buy out various companies

related to the gaming industry.The Redmond corporation also made an offer to Nintendo, which, according to witnesses of those events, responded quite arrogantly to Microsoft’s appeal.

In the early 2000s, then-CEO SteveBallmer tried to buy big companies that could help Microsoft promote the Xbox, reports The Verge. Among others, company representatives met with Nintendo. According to Kevin Bacchus, then the head of relations with partners for Xbox, in response to the American proposal, the Japanese corporation "laughed to tears."