Soundwave said:
Getting your ass kicked by Sony for 16/20 years and being locked out of the traditional home console market I'd say is plenty of reasons to rethink things. The way the industry is totally favors Playstation and Sony would love to keep the status quo. MS and Nintendo should realize this and stop fighting amongst each other while in general being bullied around by Sony. Unless Sony makes another really dumb mistake like a $800 Playstation 5 (and even then Nintendo would need a miracle controller to capitalize), MS/Nintendo will always be licking Sony's boots. It's better for the two of them to work together. In the end it's better for the gamers too IMO, having some Nintendo IP on XBox and some MS IP on Switch would be good for the consumer in the end and mutually beneficial to both platforms. |
Did you know that, in this digital era, you can have more profit with less installbase than before ? Why would Nintendo let their pride and destroy their image of traditional console company by releasing their games on the Xbox ?
The only thing that could help Nintendo is third party support from all the major video game developers. Microsoft needs to create new IPS, their own new ips, in order to make people interested in the Xbox since Halo and Gears had a decline, a fairly big one, in sales.
Nintendo is competitive with Sony in Japan. Microsoft is competitive in the USA. Microsoft and Nintendo merging together would not make it popular in Europe since not even the 2 together can compete against Sony in those countries.
