Mummelmann on 12 June 2017
| pokoko said: No. The philosophies followed by Microsoft and Nintendo are diametrically opposite. Microsoft forms partnerships with third-parties because they want to expand their platform and have it grow well beyond "games". They want Xbox to be a beachhead into the multimedia center of each user. It's all about services and subscriptions. They want to be a digital Wal-mart for multimedia, particularly in the west, especially in lucrative markets. Nintendo only grows their platform because it's a way to sell software. They resist new industry standards and are slow to transition to new technical advances. They only care about forming partnerships where they reap most of the benefits and only really pay attention to the Japanese market. |
Saw thread title, came to write this exact thing, was already done by you. Letting Nintendo take over the Xbox brand would be a terrible idea, their philosophies simply collide on almost every front and in every facet and this would only crash and burn, even worse than MS manage themselves with One and Nintendo with the Wii U.
Just about the only thing they have in common is a case of control mania and a fondness for borderline or actual extortion as well as market rigging and price fixing through monopolies.
