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Soundwave on 06 September 2014
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Ka-pi96 said:
Soundwave said:

I would reccomend making a new brand entirely to be honest. With MS + Nintendo combined marketing dollars and tons of exclusives behind it would soon become the defacto brand. 

I just mean in the sense that Nintendo's logo is maybe a little higher on the box than MS. 

Which I think again MS is OK with, MS works in harmony with many different hardware vendors like this as an OS company all the time. 

Let Nintendo have their shine, they are basically a game only company, MS doesn't need that. 

Even if they couldn't get a console done for 2017, I think 2018 would be doable and I quite frankly don't think Sony could match the combined number of exclusives (see my above post). Head-to-head it's a favorable match up for Ninty/MS. 

Yeah, a new brand entirely probably would make the most sense. Especially considering how difficult it would be to think of a name that shows a succesor to the Xbox One or Wii U

My main criticism of your plan though is how Nintendo centric it is, what is the point of the partnership if Microsoft don't have about an equal influence especially in the west as I said.

It sure would be an interesting console if it did come to fruition, would sell plenty regardless of what Sony did


It has to be Nintendo centric just because Nintendo is a very lets say ... fidgety company. 

To sell a deal like this to their Japanese board they would need assurances that they have a good amount of control, in Japanese culture you want to save face. 

For MS ... what do they care really, their shareholders would react overwhelmingly positively to such a move IMO, it would be a huge win for MS in the (real) war versus iOS/Android to get exclusive OS/Cloud services to Nintendo handhelds for one. 

This is all about playing chess ... not checkers. 

Besides it's not like Nintendo is a poor shephard of a gaming division ... under Nintendo MS could rest easy knowing the quality of games like Halo would be kept high while perhaps Rare could even be salvaged. It's better than spinning off the game division or selling it to Samsung or Amazon like some of their investors want.