| Soundwave said: [...] I wouldn't mind a partnership. It would be good for both parties, but I think the bottom line is Nintendo is very sensitive about having full control, and MS would have to be willing to cede a lot of their control to Nintendo. Bottom line is though IMO Microsoft doesn't need the game business, Nintendo obviously does. MS should put their support behind NX and assist with online, in exchange Nintendo agrees to use Windows OS for NX (home and portable) and help MS with maybe some Nintendo ports for their Windows Games PC service (to combat Steam). That would be a good arrangement I think. But Nintendo is so Japan-centric and paranoid that it probably would never happen. |
Surely MS skills on online services would be good for Ninty, but Ninty couldn't accept MS control on the OS, on PC it gave MS too much power, and if it didn't on phones and tablets too it's just because competitors are stronger. For Ninty, to keep control, it would be better a partnership with a company very skilled online, but that isn't a competitor in the console market. Surely the current situation shows that Ninty prudent approach to avoid at all costs bloating the company forces it to run first-party network services that are inferior to its competitors, and it's not only about resources, being almost exclusively a gaming company unavoidably limits Ninty experience in other online services that competitors started offering on their consoles already during last gen.
