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pokoko on 15 November 2013
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Soundwave said:
pokoko said:

Cede control?  Not hardly.  If Nintendo stopped making consoles, they'd just be another developer/publisher looking for a place to sell their games.  Without a Nintendo console to compete against, both Sony and Microsoft would automatically get a boost.  They would be in a good place.  Neither one would need to "cede control" of anything.  Microsoft, especially, would never do that.

As for Nintendo, they're not stupid.  Maximizing profit would mean being on as many platforms as possible.  The one property Sony might go after hard would be Pokemon, though I suspect Nintendo would take it to iOS.

The alternate future you're painting might sound wonderful for Nintendo fans but it makes very little sense.  The most likely scenario is that Nintendo games appear on both Xbox and Playstation brands.


No, Nintendo is not like any other publisher. They could pick one of Sony/MS and tip the console scale entirely.

As such they have tremendous leverage to do as they please. And Sony/MS would have to help Nintendo's handheld business to boot.

Or they could just go take that meeting with Apple or Google and watch both Sony/MS sh*t their pants.

They'd both cave IMO, and from that point on Nintendo could just sit back and watch them both jump through hoops trying to offer the best overall partnership offer.

If you think Nintendo is run by idiots, then there is nothing I can do about that.  They wouldn't "pick one" for the same reason Ubisoft, Activision, or EA hasn't; the money is in multi-plats.

Besides, the whole premise makes no sense.  Why would a Nintendo with as much power as you're giving them leave the console business in the first place?  Let's suppose that the Wii U ends as a flop and the next Nintendo console ends as a flop, thus forcing Nintendo to abandon that market.  You think they'd still have the same leverage as when the Wii was at the top?  Not by a long shot.

No one is going to give their company away to win Nintendo.  No one is going to offer Nintendo the kind of money they would get from multiple platforms just to be exclusive.  It's not going to happen.