Microsoft wanted to buy Nintendo

A botched email disclosure lead to interesting disclosures like, as Polygon reports, that Xbox boss Phil Spencer really wanted to buy Nintendo:

But Xbox head Phil Spencer said in 2020 — a month before Microsoft announced its plan to acquire ZeniMax and subsidiary Bethesda Softworks — that his No. 1 pick for an acquisition or merger is Nintendo.

Here is a brand that’s valuable and well known: Nintendo. In the time where Microsoft is trying to merge with Blizzard-Activision, merger that the FTC is tryin to block it, we learn that it’s just a Plan B.

Not sure what would have happened either to Nintendo either. Wario replacing Clippy, and Mario answering instead of Cortana? Would that be the Xbox Switch or the Windows Switch?