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DonFerrari said:
curl-6 said:

Already covered this; not everything a console manufacturer does will  directly benefit a specific part of its consumer base. Nintendo putting Pokemon Go, Mario Run, and Fire Emblem Heroes on phones doesn't directly benefit me as a Switch owner. Xbox gamers wouldn't be losing anything, so there's really no effect on them at all, making this a complete non-issue.

Nope. You put how putting the games on the phones positively affected the Switch and its owners. And also if it doesn't need to benefit the owners then Nintendo should as well port to X1. You still trying to make a one way deal looks good for MS while not for others, while others are also trying to make it great for MS gamers as well.

MS wouldn't have to invest much of anything; these kind of projects are almost always outsourced to porting houses. Many third party games on Switch have been commercially successful, basically every popular big game brought to it has been, (sales of 1-2 Switch are completely irrelevant, you don't need to sell that much to be successful) and a game as big as Halo certainly be. It makes perfect sense.

Whatever profit they could make in Switch they would make 3x more on PS4, still you wouldn't promote it.

curl-6 said:

They only thing they'd need to spend is money to the external porting studio, which would be recouped by sales, so that wouldn't take anything away from their Xbox output at all.

And the latter assumes that third party publishers always make smart decisions, which obviously isn't true. Nonetheless, many publishers have ported their old games to Switch and there's zero reason why MS wouldn't also benefit from doing so.

Yes, the forum goers would all be better CEO of multibillion dollar companies right?

- Again, it's not a one way deal. Software is traded for an equal recompense is revenue and exposure. Both MS and Nintendo benefit, literally nobody loses.

- Playstation is a direct competitor to Xbox, so putting Halo on PS probably isn't something MS would be inclined to do. Unless they decide they are abandoning the console business altogether; if it comes comes to that, then yes, they should absolutely put Halo on PS. 

- Yes, sometimes they do. It was the heads of multimillion dollar companies that thought the Wii U, Vita, and the Virtual Boy were good ideas.

Last edited by curl-6 - on 14 August 2019