Why Sony + Nintendo Should Team Up

[Andrespetmonkey]

Soundwave said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

The negatives that Sony have aren't positives of Nintendo for the most part, and vice versa, so I disagree there. E.g. both have excellent first party infrastructure, so they don't need eachothers help there at all. One weakpoint of Sony is PSN, it isn't bad by any means, but it's worse than the competition. What could Nintendo help with here? Nothing, they're only really building their online network now, a generation late. And what could Sony offer Nintendo? A service that isn't as good as XBL or Steam? Pointless. And then there are different attitudes towards business and gaming. Sony sells consoles at a loss at launch, Nintendo doesn't and I don't think they'd be willing to with Sony's partnership, it's not any form of security considering Sony's financial state, in fact it'd probably raise the risk.

Nintendo and Sony's exclusive content is very, very different though. Mario and Uncharted bring in different audiences. Ideal if you want one platform that can build a *massive* audience that pleases everyone. Right now, I don't think either one seperately can say that. 

Both companies wouldn't have the same ideas and approaches in mind with their first party. And if they were to handle their own original FP studios and not make decisions for the other, then it kindoff nulifies part of the partnership in the first place.

Who says either Nintendo or Sony want an XBL service? Both just want a big audience, and no doubt I see things with the Miis + Miiverse and not to mention Nintendo's incredible back catalog of classic software that would be extremely appealling to Sony. 

You're missing my point here, which is that both companies don't have obvious weaknesses where the other has strengths, like you said. They both have a weakness in the same area. Microsoft and Sony is more fitting here because Microsoft has a strength where Sony has a weakness, Microsoft can help Sony here, just as Sony can help Microsoft when it comes to first party infrastructure.

Yeah XBL is great ... but I mean lets just think of the Virtual Console potentially -- NES, SNES, N64, Playstation, PS2, GameCube, Wii, PS3. Good luck competing with that, Microsoft. 

Could happen with Nintendo, but not with Sony. Sony have clearly gone down the route of re-releasing games from last-gen platforms with improvements to graphics or performance on current-gen platforms. Nintendo aren't doing this. 

What about this? " Sony sells consoles at a loss at launch, Nintendo doesn't and I don't think they'd be willing to with Sony's partnership, it's not any form of security considering Sony's financial state, in fact it'd probably raise the risk."