Twenty seven acres of Nintendo property are up for sale, and guess who's one of the notable bidders? A Seattle newspaper is reporting that Microsoft has their checkbook burning for the empty lot directly behind the existing Nintendo campus, otherwise secretly known as the cancer jammed between MSN and other nearby Microsoft headquarter buildings.  The news story is fully of passive aggressive business speak like some suit from Microsoft saying "always aware of possibilities". Who talks like that, and why haven't I been picking up starchy office women with that line?  What I think he means is "hell yeah we'd love Nintendo to GTFO".

Despite earlier rumors that Nintendo is moving to either NYC or Silicon Valley, Perry Kaplan maintains that they are keeping their 900+ employees in Redmond while a few hundred are moving to remote locations. Say what you want, but I can't believe a growing company will stay put there *and* sell the space they had previously held to someday grow into.  It makes no sense. If the deal goes through, let's see how long they stay in town when Microsoft moves in.  I dare them to build and point a giant outdoor five story Xbox Live Camera directly at Reggie's corner office.

NextGen noted that Microsoft needs the space: "During the last fiscal year, the company added 10,000 employees worldwide, the biggest hike in its history."  That makes sense, since Vista is the most bloated operating system ever made. I'll cut myself off there before I turn this place into Slashdot.