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Forums - Gaming - Sony & Microsoft to be allies in next console war?

 

What do you want MS and Sony to do?

Merge. One console to rule them all. 91 30.95%
 
Stay seperate. I hate one... 104 35.37%
 
Cross play. No merger, just some partnership. 99 33.67%
 
Total:294
Farsala on 30 July 2012

I am afraid that if this happened the video game industry would be hurt from this rather then gain. If there was no competition and one company trying to be better then the other in offering their services then 65m for each console would be impossible. Although the Xboxstation would be funny. If they merged all of their good things together then it would be alright. But I believe competition would make the next gen consoles better.



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Mr Khan on 30 July 2012

The issue here is that Sony is trying to orient itself more in a software/service position in the long-run, so a Microsoft partnership would give Microsoft too much power.



Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.

HabinoBR on 30 July 2012

PlayStation X on the works



LET'S GO KNICKS

Sensei on 30 July 2012

I wouldn't have a problem with that. It's better than having to buy 2 consoles.



Sal.Paradise on 30 July 2012
darkknightkryta said:
SvennoJ said:
 

It sounds good but

There would be no more reason to start the gen with a loss leading high tech console to get marketshare. Blu-ray players started at $1200, for a long time the very expensive ps3 was the cheapest blu-ray player.

1st party games will slowly disappear. We already have a system like this, the pc. How much effort is MS putting into pc games nowadays? Does Sony even have any pc games?

Surprisingly yes.  Twisted Metal 2 and Jet Moto were put on PC back in the heyday.  Plus all those games from Sonysoft like Lion King.

I think you're forgetting that they're still developing PC games!



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kain_kusanagi on 30 July 2012
kitler53 said:
sony has the better 1st party infrastructure, ms has the better OS infrastructure,
sony has a movie and music business, ms has lots of other media relationships
sony has psn+ and their gaikai acquisition, ms has windows integration
sony has vita a tablet, ms has smartglass and surface
sony has move, ms has kinect

..i dunno. a smart integration between the two could be awesome. i'd be a bit worried by a lack of "competition" but overall i think i'd be happy to see MSony team up. it would be certain to be a vastly better console than the wii U.


There was plenty of competition, very heated competition, between just Nintendo and Sega. Why wouldn't that same competition continue if it were just Nintendo and MSony?



DieAppleDie on 30 July 2012

"would be certain to be a vastly better console than the wii U"
so an hypotetical console that never will see the light would be vastly superior to a console thats not even out yet?
nice...



darkknightkryta on 30 July 2012
Sal.Paradise said:
darkknightkryta said:
SvennoJ said:
 

It sounds good but

There would be no more reason to start the gen with a loss leading high tech console to get marketshare. Blu-ray players started at $1200, for a long time the very expensive ps3 was the cheapest blu-ray player.

1st party games will slowly disappear. We already have a system like this, the pc. How much effort is MS putting into pc games nowadays? Does Sony even have any pc games?

Surprisingly yes.  Twisted Metal 2 and Jet Moto were put on PC back in the heyday.  Plus all those games from Sonysoft like Lion King.

I think you're forgetting that they're still developing PC games!

D'OH!  I completely forgot about SOE.



aikohualda on 30 July 2012

OMG Nintendo is sooooo DOOM!!!!! (sarcasm)



 

kain_kusanagi on 30 July 2012
BasilZero said:

Now that I think of it...hmm, would be a dream come true ;)

(And ease for my wallet).


That's how I feel. What I'm surprised of is the number of people who voted in the pole who so hate one of the company they don't want the company they love to be tainted by it. It's so wierd to me that anyone would hate a console maker that much.