my problem with nintendo

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Ka-pi96 said:

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Ka-pi96 said:

MS has more than just Halo, not to mention they appeal to an entirely different demographic than Nintendo games. I doubt it would affect Xbox's core audience at all. Wouldn't make any difference to the mainstream gamers that just want COD/FIFA/Madden etc either.

Yeah well Sony appeals to same exact audience (better than MS actually) and have COD/FIFA/Madden too. They would just have a ton of Nintendo exclusives too. 

If Nintendo did that they would effectively end the console wars and that would probably grant them a pretty sweet spot at the table. 

Which honestly wouldn't be a bad play for Nintendo, they could still continue to make portable hardware (Sony could provide them with assistance there too). 

Wouldn't be a bad alliance at all. In one swift move, Sony gets rid of MS permanantly basically. 

The issue with the PS/XBox brands is there isn't any strong brand loyalty between either. That means any advantage one has over the other tips the scales pretty far, like the PS4 being more powerful this generation, lots of 360 fans are choosing the PS4. They don't care, as long as they get their COD/FIFA/Madden. It would be the same thing if Sony had a deal with Nintendo ... why not, if you have two restaurants with the exact same menu but one gives you free desert or wine, odds are you're going to chose the one with free desert/wine. 

You are vastly overrating Nintendo while also completely disregarding Microsoft. It would barely make a difference to Xbox sales in its main territories. The only one that it could affect Microsoft in is Japan, where they are pretty much irrelevant anyway, so wouldn't really affect much there either.

A very large number of Xbox gamers don't have any interest in Nintendo games. If Nintendo games suddenly became exclusive to PS that wouldn't change. Even if they went exclusive to Xbox, some may try out of curiosity, but it still wouldn't change much.

There isn't a big difference between the XBox and Playstation to begin with, that's the issue, it doesn't take much to tip the scales in that situation. That's the point. 

"Nintendo games" is kind of a broad statement too, the average COD/GTA player may not give two sh**ts about something like Captain Toad or Animal Crossing, sure, but a really well done Metroid or Zelda or Smash would be a showpiece title for Sony's platform as much as any Uncharted game. 

And honestly most people have a soft spot for a little Mario/Mario Kart, yes even those jaded 14 year olds who will play "only" Calladooty or whatever, they grew up on Mario, same with the 28-year-old. 

Are they going to buy a seperate Nintendo console to play those games? Nope. But if they could get them on their Playstation where they get their main third party games, I'm pretty sure they'd indulge now and again and it would be a fair sized advantage for Sony. 

Contrary to popular belief too, the largest fanbase that Nintendo has is in America, not Europe or even Japan.