Adinnieken said:
MoHasanie said:
It would be pretty awesome and Sony would have some very tough competition, but I think its really hard to partner with MS; they seem like bullies. |
You'd be surprised.
In the 80's, in Japan, the most popular PC standard was the MSX. It was also popular in Europe and other parts of the world. Every serious electronics manufacturer made an MSX compatible computer. Microsoft was the MS in MSX. The developed and maintained the MSX standard, but Japanese electronics manufacturers created their own PCs based on that standard.
Once the IBM PC became the business standard world-wide, MSX computers went out of favor.
In fact, Metal Gear Solid made its debut as an MSX game.
I'm suggesting the same thing. Microsoft essentially establishes the standard, though Nintendo would be involved in shaping that as well. But it would be a platform that Nintendo could customize, not simply rubber stamp it.
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Ah, but that was when MS was a lot smaller. Now MS has become more powerful and greedy, so they wouldn't make it easy to partner with. Even when Nokia started putting Windows software on their phones, they were actually paying MS 500m Euros just for MS to support the software. But to be fair, MS was paying them to use the software. Still, at least MS was getting paid. Google gets nothing from campanies that put Android software on their devices.
