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KLXVER on 16 June 2016
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Soundwave said:
JetSetter said:

It goes beyond that though. Simply slapping Animal Crossing, Mario or Pokémon on an Xbox isnt going to make it sell 3DS numbers in Japan. Likewise, it probably isn't going to do anything for them in the West either. I just don't see the kinds of games Nintendo makes selling a whole lot on other platforms (except for mobile). 

Which is why it would be preferable to Nintendo possibly to enter an alliance with MS rather than by a generic 3rd party. In a partnership they could still have some design control over hardware and be able to shape things more to their liking, perhaps even keep a slice of hardware/software licensing fees. 

Nintendo fans would buy it because it would in effect be a Nintendo console ... just with a ton of third party support and Halo + Forza + Killer Instinct + other Rare games. 

Wouldn't be a bad fit, MS is strong where Nintendo is weak and vice versa, and MS really doesn't seem that interested in actually running a game division in the 1st/2nd party sense ... they seem to just want to create the hardware and ecosystem ... well that fits well with Nintendo because Nintendo doesn't seem to give much of a shit about creating the hardware or ecosystem per se but focusing on innovation through games/controllers. 

If MS threw in some nice money hats to go with it ... wouldn't be a bad fit for Nintendo. They'd still be "special" and above other third parties, which I think is important to them. If NX flops, they don't want to be reduced to being just another third party. 

I would rather have this than Nintendo going all mobile. Thats for damn sure.