Anari said:
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The Playstation was huge, and sold more than any home console before it. Also, the Playstation 2 wouldn't have existed either, and that is the best selling console of all time.
| BasilZero said: They could sell both the WiiU and the Vita together since they arent selling by themselves. |
LOL, or the vita could have ended up as the Wii U gamepad.
| anthony64641 said: also Naughty Dog would make games for Nintendo consoles (or nintendo/sony's console). The sega saturn wasnt a good choice. |
No, they wouldn't have. They would've remained third party. Nintendo had Rare back then.
| Egann said: I would REALLY like to see Legend of Dragoon with Wii controls. Now that's out of my system... I expect that the instant Nintendo becomes a software dev instead of hardware and software, the two big hardware giants will immediately raise the price of their consoles. Nintendo for the past couple of generations has not competed on the power front, but that's practically all there is between Microsoft and Sony: a power war. Remove Nintendo making the Wii U for $350 and the only competition left is between Microsoft, Sony, and PC's. All three of those are ruled by a spec war, not a price war. Without Nintendo, I imagine what we'll see is very powerful consoles going for at least $200 more than they do now. |
I strongly disagree. The others can't raise the prices in the current economic situation, their sales will just die. There's only so much people are willing to spend on game consoles. Besides, Sony and MS are in heave competition against each other, they're both targetting the same user groups for the most part.
Sony's and Nintendo's views on games are too different.
VGPolyglot said:
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And the Wii was huge and brought in more new gamers than any console before it.
Neither of those facts mean gaming wouldn't have been as big as it is had Sony and Nintendo joined up.
"Ladies and gentlemen. Today Sontendo announces a game that will shake the world. Super Uncharted Legend of Bandicoot Galaxy with a overworld as big as 300 square miles"
7 years later....."The game is on hold. Please understand."
Not sure about the SNES CD but in the long run a team up of Nintendo and Sony could have been a beautiful thing.
As others have said, Sega would still be making consoles and Sony would have likely helped drag the mainstream towards Nintendo. The PS1 attracted a lot of older gamers with more "adult" themed games and had the "coolness" factor that Nintendo lacked - all of that could have been absorbed by whatever the N64 would have been.
I love Nintendo, but feel they've been on wobbly ground ever since the N64 when it comes to the competitiveness of their variety of games. The quirky decision to remain using cartridges made life a bit more difficult for third parties and was the start of Ninty's smaller shelf in the game shop, with the narrower variety of games.
A team-up with Sony may have prevented this from happening. I do not believe that Sony have always been "horrible" at marketing. The Walkman became synonymous with personal stereos and the PS1 adverts pushed the lifestyle angle and for the first time games were not just for kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bqq38WZctA
Nintendo could have had some of that action, kept their identity AND been even better than they are today in partnership with Sony.
Too much planning, and you'll never get anything done.
Karl Pilkington.
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