I hear a lot of people saying Nintendo can't afford to compete with a traditional console...

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artur-fernand said:

Soundwave said:
Sony isn't the problem. I think Nintendo would be OK with competing with Sony.

Microsoft is where they get the problem. Because it would be one thing to just compete against Sony, which is a much smaller company than MS, but when you have two already doing the same exact thing more or less, then Nintendo trying to butt in and be the third just comes across as hopelessly "me too".

And Microsoft has had in the past no hesitance to turn things into a pissing match over money.

MS just overcrowded everything too much.

MS has some sort of infinite war chest, yes. But quite frankly, in 3 generations, I never saw this changing things DRAMATICALLY. They made GTA4 and FFXIII go multi-platform (...which was pretty huge I guess), and got the deal with CoD (which they lost already) but I don't know, it seems to me Nintendo is perfectly capable of competing.

MS got timed-exclusivity on Tomb Raider and Sony (with less money than Nintendo) got the same deal with FFVII and full console exclusivisity with SF5. Nintendo could surely do something like that too, and they have the benefit of really strong first-party IPs. Regardless, it's been proven that the consumer wants just traditional gaming consoles. That's it.

Sony uses leverage and compensation at this point to get deals. A publisher already knows he is going to sell best on the PS4, and if he does a deal with MS they stand to lose alot. Sony just has to make it worth their while. Help with marketing, reduce or eliminate royalties... stuff like that.

Nintendo does not care about 3rd party games. In their perfect world (which they got with the Wii) they create a product that people buy in massess then they become pretty much the sole software provider to those masses (thus the reason Nintendo have multiple 20+ million sellers on the Wii).

MS uses brute force to get games and sell consoles. They have little leverage right now so they have to pay out of the ass for any deal (unless the dev is dumb), they completely dropped their vision for the XB1 in less than a year and were selling it 150 dollars cheaper with great bundles.