| Soundwave said: 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. |
Maybe I misunderstood you, I thought you were coming from the angle of Nintendo just throwing their games on the Xbox platform. But if they actually partnered (key word: partnered) with MS, or Sony, and developed the hardware together (so both sides knew how it worked from the inside out) then I think that would be a great scenario. Couple that with mobile for Japan (and the rest of the world in general) it could be a pretty good deal for them.
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