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S.T.A.G.E. on 05 July 2016
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Soundwave said:
S.T.A.G.E. said:

Lets just say what you're saying is true and it did happen. Microsofts in house development teams (that theyve created) are not creative enough to be Nintendo second party. Hate to say it but they could scrap everything the day they say goodbye to the industry. The Coalition is pretty much the remnants of Epic Games, Halo was purchased (IP and company) from Microsoft and have you seen Microsoft put out a hot new IP without paying third party? LOL....The only favor they could do for Nintendo is loan them money and build their OS.

I wish I could say Microsoft could be a good second party, but that probably would've only worked with Sony.

Nintendo wouldn't need them to do shit really, I mean Nintendo had a ton of second party partners at that time, MS would've just been one of another. 

Signing a deal with MS to use Windows would've been worth it on the basis of not having to compete against another multi-billion dollar conglomerate. 

Once XBox entered the business, Nintendo effectively got shut out of the traditonal console market because you have too many brands. People just want one central brand and maybe one alternative and that's it. 

GameCube would've done a lot better had they just swallowed their pride and agreed to use Windows, what difference really would it have made. The Dreamcast apparently used Windows CE or some such and I never gave that even one thought in tons of play time. If you're willing to work with IBM and Silicon Graphics, which Nitnendo was willing to do, then why not Microsoft too. 

True. Microsofts entrance into the market pretty much solidified that Nintendo wasnt even a second option.