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Soundwave on 20 October 2016
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mountaindewslave said:
Soundwave said:

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

See my explaination above. I think it's well reasoned actually. 

I also think Nintendo is changing. They are going to become a media conglomerate soon with theme parks and movies. If those movies especially take off, Nintendo will be changed forever, believe that. They are not going to be the same insular little company. 

It would be a different story if Nintendo was directly competing with Sony/MS, but I just don't see that they are, they are effectively now basically a portable console company (NS is the high end, 3DS is the low end, iOS/Android is the micro end ... but there's no real attempt here at taking Sony/MS audience). Sony/MS are not making portable game machines. There just isn't an overlap (or much of one anymore), but there are still I'd bet a fair number of XBox/Playstation players who wouldn't mind a slice of Zelda or Mario now and again.