If Nintendo had to, which one?

[Teeqoz]

Ck1x said:

Teeqoz said:

But what you say about what Playstation and xbox gamers think about Nintendo titles are irrelevant. Where do you think Nintendo fans would go if Nintendo merged with either Sony or MS? They would obviously either buy a PLaystation or an xbox, to play Nintendo games. Or do you think all those Nintendo fans would just cease to exist, or decide to quit gaming all together? Because that's the only way sales of core Nintendo franchises would drop if such a merger were to happen.

 

Also, if Nintendo had to pick a few franchises to work with, from sales, I can assure you Mario would be one of them, while Metroid wouldn't.

They would most likely buy a Nintendo handheld device to get their Nintendo games or is the OP suggesting that Nintendo would just magically cease to exist in hardware altogether... If Nintendo were forced to make most of their current core franchises look realistic for the sake of being on Playstation or Xbox systems, yes they would likely lose the people who are currently buying their software. Most people buy Nintendo games because they are fun and different from what the others provide, if that's lost then there's really no reason to buy their games anymore...

Why would Nintdndo's core franchises be forced to look realistic just because they released on Playstation/Xbox? There is absolutely no reason for that. It's just silly. Do you think Sony/MS would completely vaste the value of those IPs just for fun? Heck, even assuming that for some inceomprehensibly stupid reason Sony/MS wanted to try and force Nintendo to make realistic games from their core IPs, you don't thinkNintendo would have any as to what they want to develop? And that is ignoring the fact that neither Sony nor MS would force Nintendo to make the games realistic.