Phil Spencer: "I'd Love to See Mario on Xbox"

[Nautilus]

Soundwave said:

Nautilus said:
Well, any console maker would love to have Nintendo IP on their systems.But I would also be happy to have Halo and Uncharted on Nintendo systems.It just wont happen.

I think both will happen within 5-6 years. Watch and see. 

Halo on Switch and Mario on XBox. And I think personally it's a good thing. Will be good for Rareware too. 

I think MS is already making overtures to Nintendo as we speak, and both companies will develop a nice working relationship because of Minecraft, which is going to be one of the top (if not the top) third party games on the Switch. 

Both should understand if there is an "enemey", it's actually Sony. Nintendo/MS fighting over the scraps from Sony's table benefits no one but Sony who's basically taken over the entire console industry for the last 20 years. Even with the Wii, and virtually every possible thing going right for Nintendo, and PS3 with every thing going wrong for Sony early on, the Wii barely outsold the PS3 in the end, that shows you how difficult it is to beat Playstation, and Nintendo is unlikely to ever have a controller miracle/fad like the Wiimote ever again. 

I dont think so.First because that kind of a deal will obviously have the one that will benefit more, the one that will "own" the system those games will be launched on and remember as the "owner".And that ultimately will affect the brand.I dont think Nintendo nor MS wants to be the second guy here.

Second reason is that MS is having its own success.It seems that XOne is having a great momentum now, and it was already selling well.And it already has plans for the future, with Play Anywhere and Scorpio.The same can be said to Nintendo, with the whole Theme park/Movies/mobile initiatives, also with the Switch comming.If a deal is to be made, its not going to happen in the next 4 years.And if that happens, it will take an extra 2 or 3 years for us to see any kind of result out of that.So that wont happen soon at all, if it happens at all.

Third reason is that it is simply is more profitable to be a full owner(no partnership) of the platform or the business you are in, and thats especially true for Nintendo, because they can do whatever they want, and seeing how they do many things that are out of the box and outright different, while MS is more conservative(at least in my perspective).And time proved time and time again that this quirkiness is very profitable for Nintendo(Splatoon, Animal Crossing, Wii, DS,etc, were all born from this different way to see the industry, or if you prefer, lack of fear of doing something different).There is also the argument that you satnd to profit wayyyyyy more ripping all the profit of a platform for yourself than to split that with partners, even if you have to endure the occasional failure like the Wii U, if that means you have the chance to have another success as the Wii.Plus I see Nintendo as a very proud company.I think they prefer to go third party than to give in and make a joint partnership on a platform.

Plus its not like they wont have something to fall back to if the Switch fails(and fails here is very subjective).They will have many sources of income from all the initiatives they are doing, plus the merchandising and stuff.And since I personally think that the Switch will be successful, I dont see it happening.Like, never happening.