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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
IIIIITHE1IIIII on 30 July 2012

...except there already are rumors regarding Xbox 3 and PS4.

I don't think I would care a lot if this happened. I know Sony has lots of high quality titles but none that I care about at the moment (except maybe Heavy Rain).

...unless they made online free of charge, of course. Then I would care :P



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BenVTrigger on 30 July 2012

Dont understand why anyone would be against this especially MS and Sony.

They currently basically are splitting the same market while each incurring huge development costs making their own consoles. If they united development costs would drastically decrease while profits would rise and their unified console would sell massive units due to its rediculous game library and strong online.

That said I dont believe this rumor at all both companies seem too stubborn to help each other



DitchPlaya on 30 July 2012

I hope so, while Nintendo may have been defeated, the real enemy of core gaming is still out there and growing.



Ssenkahdavic on 30 July 2012

This would probably be one of the most interesting things to happen to the video game industry in over 20 years.



 

  

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Cobretti2 on 30 July 2012
DitchPlaya said:
I hope so, while Nintendo may have been defeated, the real enemy of core gaming is still out there and growing.

how are Nintendo defeated?



 

 

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kain_kusanagi on 30 July 2012
Cobretti2 said:
DitchPlaya said:
I hope so, while Nintendo may have been defeated, the real enemy of core gaming is still out there and growing.

how are Nintendo defeated?


Yeah and the statement implies that Nintendo was enemy of core gaming. That's just ludicrous. Mario, Zelda, and Metroid ar staples of core gaming.



archbrix on 30 July 2012
kain_kusanagi said:

One console would be cheaper and more accessible. It would end stupid fanboy wars. I'd love to go back to a time like when there was just Nintendo and Sega. Those were simpler times, better times.

Well, there was never a time when there was "just" Nintendo and Sega.  There was always either Atari, NEC, SNK, 3DO, etc in the marketplace.  But I agree with your sentiment:  Now that all of the big three are so big, there will inevitably be great games exclusive to each system, and something like this could certainly help to limit how many consoles one has to buy to play everything.

Personally, I don't think it will happen, but if it did, that'd be pretty awesome.



TheFallen on 30 July 2012

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-07-15-microsoft-registers-microsoft-sony-com

Coincidence?



spaceguy on 30 July 2012

Why would you want them to merge. Higher price's less competition, less games and just all around a bad Idea. IF you want them to join and pay $1000 for your system then fine but in reality we all win with them not joining force's. MS is most likely getting a good deal on Blu-ray and sony wanted to charge them out the ass.



Spedfrom on 30 July 2012

"Does not compute" is all I have to say.