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Soundwave on 08 November 2016
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Why not sell 50-60 million Switches, and have a big stake in 70+ million XBoxes as well?

Nintendo has had portable centric consoles sell alongside home systems for a long time so that's not really a conflict of interest, the consumer does not give a shit about "marketing distinctions".

People do not want to buy just a Nintendo home console anymore. I don't think they ever did. The NES and Super NES succeeded because they had a wide variety of software, if the NES had only 1st party games and the Sega Master System had its 1st party games + all the third party games that the NES had, it probably would've won that console cycle. Wii succeeded on hitting pay dirt with a controller craze and underserved market that isn't underserved any longer and from what I can tell, Nintendo is out of controller gimmicks, if they had something big it would be front and center part of the Switch. 

If they can get a good deal from MS, I would strongly consider it. A stable 60-70 million console userbase would reap healthy profits for them and ensure a large market presence and they'd still be free to take home all they want from the Switch. 

Where do 70m+ Xboxes come from all of a sudden? You disregard the sales of high-selling Nintendo home consoles of the past and at the same time bump up Microsoft's number to an unreal one. Microsoft's track record suggests that anything above 50m is going to be a longshot. Xbox (24m), Xbox 360 (~90m), Xbox One (projected to be below 40m). Xbox Scorpio is going to be a next generation system, features a new CPU and GPU on its motherboard.

XBox One is trending towards 40 million LTD, if you could involve Nintendo I think that would bump to 60-70 million. 10 million more from Japan right off the hop where MS has basically 0. An additional 10-20 million from EU/Americas.

The combined effect of both Nintendo and MS libraries and full third party support would in general create an overall more appealling singular platform as a whole anyway which would siphon off some Playstation users too. Super Mario + Halo + Zelda + Minecraft w/exclusive Nintendo content + Gears of War + Smash Brothers + Mario Kart + Forza + Donkey Kong Country + Metroid and all third party multiplats is a platform even Sony would have some problems matching up with, they'd have Uncharted + Horizon + God of War + uh ... Gran Turismo + the same multiplatform games.