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Forums - Gaming Discussion - Forbes: Microsoft Should Give XBox One To Nintendo

noname2200 on 20 February 2014
Mr Khan said:

Or my parents giving me their 14-year-old car with 133,000 miles on it and rust in a few small places. Yeah, a car is good, but the work just creeps up on you...

Suffering builds character.

 

 

Also, crushing debt.



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sidmeiernintifan on 20 February 2014
Soundwave said:
bucky1965 said:
Will never happen. Ninty is its own company. They will never merge with anyone.


Five years ago, I'd agree, but the current Nintendo faced with the humbling sting of three consecutive operating losses in a row, a Wii U flop, and the alarming erosion of the handheld market I think would be more open to a partnership like this than some might think IMO. 

The main caveats here would have to be how much control Nintendo has and would MS be a threat of buying out Nintendo at some point later down the road (though this may be a non-issue now that Nintendo has repurchased most of Yamauchi's shares). 

If nothing else, simply getting MS out of the console business makes Nintendo the defacto "other guy" in the business and would increase their stature in the industry by default. Third parties would support them just because they don't want to make games just for one platform only, more consumers might give them a chance as the spotlight is no longer split three ways, etc. etc. 

 

I think the biggest problem Nintendo has is the same as Sony, they are both Japanese companies, and there people are expected to work for the same corporation till they die, the thing that does not let Nintendo go only software is they would have to get rid of their hardware employees, and that would be seen as a being betrayed by your father situation, firing people ain't that easy there. I see a lot of people saying Sony should get rid of their tvs, but they don't want to fire all those japanese people.

Perhaps if Nintendo is successful with their quality of life thing, the hardware part of Nintendo can work on that, and they can go software only with videogames.