Darwinianevolution on 04 February 2019
Jumpin said:
How does this hurt Nintendo? It removes a major infrastructure development and maintenance burden, and gives it to a pre-existing expert. In addition, Nintendo gains extra royalty revenues since the games are still being licensed to Switch. Microsoft in turn gets to tremendously expand their platform to a potential 100+ million more customers within 5 years, and without the need of expanding the Xbox hardware user base. It’s kind of win/win. |
If the XBox Live starts selling games through Nintendo's hardware (or rents them or gives them away) they would be compeeting with a external service for digital revenue, something unheard of in console gaming. This is the same reason Nintendo shot down Origin's online during the WiiU era.
