What if Microsoft teams up with Nintendo?

[vivster]

Bandorr said:

vivster said:
What if everyone just goes 3rd party and everyone can enjoy every game because we will have unified platform?

Could be the worst possible outcome.  There with be no exclusives, little innovation, and little competition.

Plus all games would be restricted by the lowest common dominator.

Looks like the brainwashing of the console makers works like a charm.

Nothing of what you said is actually happening on current open platforms. If we have one open software platform everyone is free to do what they want. People can make their own fork of the platform and offer their own apps and features. Games will all be made for the same platform and will of course be scalable like they already are on PC. Everyone can buy the hardware they want and all games will be running on it depending on the specs.

Competition will be at their highest because it isn't made easy by locking games behind a plastic box that nobody wants.I mean look what the current awesome competition has made.

One platform that is so dominant that it can just lock online features behind a paywall and arbitrarily increase that price by 20% because they are SO scared of the competition.
Then we have the platform that just launched but features hardware that barely outperforms 2010 hardware with the worst online system on the market. Also they just made a previously free service paid. Looks like they're REALLY scared of the "competition".

Then we have have a platform that is drifting out of relevance and its only chance is acquiring games and paying money just so that other people cannot play those games. Great bonus for consumers because of "competition".

Yeah, people are really profiting from this so called "competition".

Shit like that won't fly on an open platform because there consumers have actual choice and that is the actual thing that scares companies. Because when there is choice, there is competition. In the current console market there is zero choice.

Look at PC and look at android. Free platforms that people make money with despite all games being available to everyone on that platform. There is choice in hardware, choice in game configurations, choice in peripherals, choice in software modifications. That industry thrives because it's welcoming to both consumers and creators without locking anyone out. And because it's so open, there is actual incentives to create good software.