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Soundwave on 20 December 2016
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Ka-pi96 said:
Soundwave said:

They'd be getting a brand that could actually sell their hardware in those markets though ... MS has had 15 years to show they can make inroads in broader Europe and Japan and they're still basically right where they started off. 

Plus Nintendo games would help them globally. 

It's not like the XBox division is really anything but a vanity project for MS anyway, they don't need the peanuts of profit that come from the game business, it's the equivalent of a rich billionaire owning a sports team. 

No they wouldn`t. With the exception of Japan Microsoft has been better at marketing the Xbox One in those markets than Nintendo have the Wii U. Not only that but under such a deal why would Nintendo market the Xbox at all? They`d be stupid to do such a thing when it`s a direct competitor to the Switch. It would be tantamount to discontinuing Xbox in those markets.

Nintendo games wouldn`t help them globally. Any impact they could have would be mitigated by the fact they`d still release on Switch and worse your propose that Nintendo only give them some of their games while all Microsoft franchises should be on Switch, that alone would harm Xbox sales far more than those Nintendo games would help them.

Furthermore Microsoft are using their 1st party games to also try to increase the appeal of Windows 10 and the Windows Store, releasing them elsewhere would not only undermine Xbox itself but would also undermine their plans for Windows 10.

Even if Xbox is just like a `rich billionaire owning a sports team` running it yourself and making a small profit from it is still vastly superior to paying someone else to run it resulting in losses.

 

Now of course a partnership between MS and Nintendo could work, but it would have to actually be a partnership, not just Microsoft paying for the `privilege` of being raped by Nintendo...

You could work out a deal that's more amenable to both sides I'm sure. 

MS could handle the marketing, fine then (lol, I doubt Nintendo gives a shit), but letting them distribute at least in Asia probably would be smart on MS' part. 

Nintendo could make specific games for the XBox, and others for the Switch. Just like their iOS/Android games are specific to those platforms, there's no Pokemon Go on the 3DS. And MS could make games for the Switch, and the two devices could even work together possibly. 

But the deal would have to be more amenable to Nintendo IMO, just because they are quite frankly more picky about things. For MS, getting Nintendo support would be huge in just about any form. 

Besides, Nintendo could always threaten to go make a partnership with Sony, in which case, MS would basically be done in the business anyway. I mean if you want to be evil about negotiating, that would be one card to play to get the best possible deal. If I was Nintendo I'd basically just keep going back between the two of them until I scored the best possible deal.