Xbox boss Phil Spencer was interested in acquiring Nintendo in 2020, internal email reveals

Xbox chief Phil Spencer believed a Nintendo merger would have been his 'career moment'

One of the leaked documents from the FTC v. Microsoft case was an email Spencer sent to the company's Chief Marketing Officers Chris Capossela and Takeshi Numoto in 2020.

Xbox boss Phil Spencer was interested in acquiring Nintendo in 2020, internal email reveals

An internal email revealed as part of the FTC v. Microsoft court case has confirmed that as of 2020, Xbox boss Phil Spencer was interested in acquiring Nintendo. At that point, in fact, he considered the company to be “THE prime asset for us in gaming”. As The Verge reports, in an email sent to Microsoft’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, Chris Capossela, and executive vice president and commercial chief marketing officer, T…

Phil Spencer says acquiring Nintendo would be ‘a career moment’

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would really like to buy Nintendo someday. In an August 2020 email to two top Microsoft marketing executives, Spencer wrote that “Nintendo is THE prime asset for us in Gaming” and that “getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe a good move for both companies.” The emails were revealed as part of a tranche of leaked documents from the FTC v. Microsoft lawsuit. One executive, Takeshi Numoto,…

"Getting Nintendo would be a career moment" and a "good move for both companies", said Xbox boss Phil Spencer in emails from 2020

Phil Spencer in 2020: "getting [acquiring] Nintendo would be...

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Microsoft's Phil Spencer Says Acquiring Nintendo Would Be 'a Career Moment'

Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer would really like to buy Nintendo someday. From a report: In an August 2020 email to two top Microsoft marketing executives, Spencer wrote that "Nintendo is THE prime asset for us in Gaming" and that "getting Nintendo would be a career moment and I honestly believe ...