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mountaindewslave on 20 October 2016
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Soundwave said:
mountaindewslave said:

tons of people were talking about both and random online sources mentioned both of those possibilities before you. Stop giving yourself too much credit. Your predictions about Nintendo 'making a deal' with Sony/Micro are just absolutely absurd and reflect nothing of the Nintendo anyones knows

Not to mention desperate companies make deals like that. Not ones that are doing reasonably well. You don't make hardware deals with other companies when you have exclusive IPs that you can use to your advantage when at the same time you're capable of producing your own hardware

if we were talking about a company in debt this would be a different story 

It's not a desperate move. 

Nintendo would be gaining a lot, MS and/or Sony would have to agree to make games for Nintendo too.

It's simply the same reasoning that putting Nintendo IP on iOS/Android have. 

Nintendo I think is going to transition more towards being an entertainment conglomerate, you can already see it with movie deals coming, Mario at the Olympic games representing Japan as a host nation ... Switch and what the Playstation/XBox are becoming are far removed enough, no matter what you want to call them, that they're really not competitors. 

I mean if PS5 launches in 2019 say, that'll be like two generations removed from the Switch and a completely different type of product, this is not the 1990s or 2000s anymore. 

ask yourself logically first A) would that truly benefit Nintendo? (their IPs are their power) and B) would that truly benefit Sony / Micro?

if everybody abandons their exclusives then you're headed to a one world gaming system environment (probably PC with seamless wireless connection to televisions).

Nintendo is first and foremost a video game company. if the Switch does remotely well (which it probably will, again Nintendo's home console market + handheld market) they are not going to be thinking about even the remote possibility of sharing Mario/Zelda.

Bear in mind one of the biggest selling points of the Switch on release appears like it will be Mario and Zelda.

I think you're out of place with this. As I've already said, the video game market is only so big, Nintendo will always be competing for the same customers as Sony for example