What if 2 of the big three console companies mergered?

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soulsamurai said:

CAL4M1TY said:
I would hate to see any of them merge, competition is great for gamers.

BUT, The one that'd make most sense (realistically) would be Nintendo + someone else.

Sony and Microsoft are huge companies with many many many divisions outside of gaming. If they ever came to situation where a merger would be likely, they'd probably close the divisions down instead.

Nintendo on the other hand are a purely gaming company, which means that if their gaming goes belly up one day, they have nothing to fall back on, meaning they'd either go into the dust (hi atari) or be absorbed by someone else.

 

I don't think the market would close down at all. Gaming use to be one of Sony's biggest incomes, while losing right now i have faith it can make a comeback, and personally i think Mr. Gates loves the fact that he's making consoles simply cause games are awesome to say the least.  I have a huge problem with nintendo this year (once again I' am not egging anyone on and I' am not trying to start a war. I like nintendo, just not at this point in time if that makes since. the last time they had something i liked was 64) Everyone was upset with this years nintendo e3 I felt the hurt on that one. I have a wii simply for MH Tri and i watched hoping for something else to give me an excuse to open my box.  This is the reason i wouldn't want nintendo to make a merge, gaming selection and the fear of a mainly casual game selection. There will always be a market for nintendo I beleive. Young and old alike. i don't think there is a single person that's not in a third-world country that doesn't who mario is. So they're safe. They certainly arn't going through rouph times right now, and even with a big company merger like that i don't think there would be a problem. I think the market share for gaming would be about 1/3 nintendo and 2/3 Sonysoft (hehe i like that).

Edited: Spelling mistakes and realized i left a sentence out

 

Despite the current marketshare being 53% 'Sonysoft' and 47% Nintendo, with millions of people owning both a 360 and a PS3.