A few months into the pandemic, when large parts of a bored, hunkered-down world were thinking about buying Animal Crossing: New Horizons, an excitable, expansionist Microsoft was thinking about buying the games maker, Nintendo.Nintendo? The unbuyable factory of whimsy? Asia’s mightiest exporter of soft power and Japan’s closely held Fort Knox of intellectual property? Madness. Well, perhaps. But madness of a type that might benefit Japan far more than it will admit.
新冠疫情暴發幾個月后，當全世界蟄伏不出、煩悶透頂，很多人都想著購買《集合啦！動物森友會》(Animal Crossing: New Horizons)的時候，意氣風發、崇尚擴張的微軟(Microsoft)卻想著買下出品這款游戲的任天堂(Nintendo)。
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