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Nintendo tells Bill Gates: "We're not for sale"

In case there was any confusion over yesterday's report that Bill Gates was looking to buy them, Nintendo would like to make it clear that the company is absolutely, positively not for sale....

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Bill Gates: motion controllers "not mainstream"

If you were wondering when Microsoft would jump on the motion-sensor bandwagon, you might be waiting a long while. According to Bill(ionaire) Gates, the all-powerful being who heads up Microsoft, the motion-sensing technology featured in Nintendo's W...

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Bill Gates on the future of computer interaction

In a very rare joint interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on stage at last week's D 2007, Microsoft founder Bill Gates told hosts Walter Mossberg and Kara Swisher, both of the Wallstreet Journal, of his vision for the future of interaction with...

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Microsoft's Gates weighs in on Revolution controller [Update 1]

Speaking with EGM, Bill Gates scoffed at the idea that Microsoft might have missed out by not being the first to develop a Nintendo Revolution-esque controller, "Holding two different things like that?" Gates also questioned Nintendo's deci...

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Microsoft apologizes for 360 'cleaning' with Bill Gates-signed replacement

Most companies in the gaming industry never really atone for their egregious errors -- if so, Nintendo would have sent us a check for the $180 in hard-earned allowance money that we blew on the retina-singeing Virtual Boy by now. However, our poor i...

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Gates: Nintendo WASN'T competition, NOW they are

This cracks us up. Before, Bill Gates said that Sony was their direct competitor, viewing Nintendo and their console as nothing more than a cute novelty. Now that the numbers are coming in and everyone wants a Wii (y'know, cuz it's fun), Bill is cha...

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Microsoft wants to buy Nintendo?

Not that it's going to happen, but a German magazine says that Bill Gates told them he would immediately make an offer for Nintendo if the company's majority shareholder, Hiroshi Yamauchi (pictured at right), was willing to sell. Just think of...

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