In all honesty, if they released it in a large scale it probably flops pretty spectacularly. And those rumors of Microsoft trying to buy Nintendo...yeah they probably happen.
Those were not rumors, that happen OTL, microsoft offer Nintendo 25 billon of dollar for the whole company, Yamauchi doesn't want to lose the control of the business of his family, let alone to american, them he propose to Microsoft become co-owner with Yamauchi(he would still have tie breaking power), the thing were considered but at the end yamauchi kill the process, the company was japanese at the end.
If yamauchi have die in 1998 and them arakawa would have become his sucessor... he would gladly sell the company....