Microsoft's Phil Spencer is eyeing the possibility of acquiring Nintendo for the company. Microsoft hasn't given up on acquiring Nintendo. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC), in its efforts to stop Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard, recently unredacted an email revealing that the tech giant is still hoping to acquire the Japan-based game developer.
In the summer of 2020, Xbox’s Phil Spencer wrote to Microsoft’s chief marketing officer, Takeshi Numoto about the possibility of Microsoft buying Nintendo.
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.