| Wh1pL4shL1ve_007 said: Wont be good. This would allow a competitor to enter the market. MS Sony and Nin are doing it three ways, thats good enough forme. |
Who could realistically compete against a console that has Mario, Halo, Uncharted, Zelda, Pokemon, Gears of War, Gran Turismo, God Of War, DKC, etc. exclusive though?
Hell, maybe Rare could become good again by getting back in touch with Nintendo, lol (Banjo-Kazooie and GoldenEye Online plz).
I think even Apple would say "screw it, we make enough money from phones/Macs/tablets, we don't need the aggravation of losing billions to get a foot hold on gamers".
If I was this supposed "MS-Nintendo-Sony" constortium, I'd basically tell third parties you can't publish for our console period unless you give us certain franchise exclusivity. Which company would seriously risk being locked out of such a platform? So on top of the above franchises, they could also mandate other IP like Resident Evil, Final Fantasy, Grand Theft Auto, Call of Duty (gulp?), etc. be exclusive. Who's going to stop them?
It wouldn't be good for consumers though, we'd lose any leverage we have to force these game companies to keep prices low. With no competetion they could price their products at whatever they wanted and probably let console generations run on indefinitely.
