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Microsoft did approach Nintendo about buying them out in the early 2000s. They were laughed out of the room.
 

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Worked for T-Mobile, and mobile providers are way more important than video games. America went from 5 mobile providers to 3, because T-Mobile bought two of them, and still continues to violate net neutrality to this day.
America should be glad that they ever had more than 3; we here have a cartel system of 3 carriers and they constantly bribe politicians to never allow in a fourth one. We once were very close to having a fourth one but then they again paid them and it was sweeped under the rug.
 

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America should be glad that they ever had more than 3; we here have a cartel system of 3 carriers and they constantly bribe politicians to never allow in a fourth one. We once were very close to having a fourth one but then they again paid them and it was sweeped under the rug.
A fourth one that doesn't exist anywhere except maybe in your country?
 

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