Why Sony + Nintendo Should Team Up

[Flanneryaug]

Soundwave said:

Flanneryaug said:

They don't think the same way, Sony copied both of those examples from Nintendo. I don't think a partnership between them would work, because Sony wants to make an expensive overpowered console, and Nintendo wants to make a cheaper, reasonably powered console.

The Playstation 3 was overpriced for the market, but the rest of Sony's game machines have been reasonably priced. It's not that Nintendo doesn't like high tech (Iwata has said this), they just don't like taking the risk. 

A partnership like this would considerably lower the risk to both companies since they can split hardware investment and any hardware losses down the middle. 

If current Sony was the same as the Sony from the PS1/PS2 era then this would be a good idea. I was hoping that after they messed up with the PS3 they would go back to making great affordable consoles, but after making the same mistake with the Vita, and saying at E3 that they've "never been first, never been cheapest, but have always been the best" I doubt they are going to change their ways.