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Do you sometimes wishes Nintendo and Sony would join forces again?

Yes 53 53.54%
 
No 46 46.46%
 
Total:99
TripleMMM said:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRKOnkVb2ug

After seeing this, I think not...



that was excellent! cant wait for part 3. wow!



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No. Because:

A) I'm not a trollish Sony fanboy who drools over the thought of Mario and Zelda on Playstation.

B) Despite a "lack of power" over the last couple of generations, I happen to like the hardware and general system design/philosophy that Nintendo puts out. Playstation is fine, but I prefer Nintendo's approach overall, even if it took them longer to really get comfortable with online stuff.

C) The by now age-old meme that "Nintendo got what was coming to them for screwing over Sony", not only has never been true, but that wasn't even the actual impetus for the creation of the first PSX. Sony wanted some rights ownership as part of the deal, and Nintendo backed out because it wasn't in their best interest. Period. Then Sony had something going with Sega, and were actually developing a console, until Sega decided to just make the Saturn on their own. And Sony pressed ahead and put out the "Playstation". End of story.

So honestly, Sony and Nintendo never really "worked together" in the past, except for a brief period when they MIGHT have made a (likely waste of time just like Sega CD) CD add-on for SNES. In the long run, what would I have preferred, for Nintendo to waste resources on shitty CD games like Sega tried to, or for them to forge ahead with awesome software like Super Metroid, Mario RPG, DKC, Yoshi's Island, Star Fox, Stunt Race FX, Kirby's Super Star, etc.? Yeah...I think they made the right choice in that particular instance. And I DON'T think I would have liked a future where Sony owned the rights to Nintendo characters.

 

 

D)  Whoever mentioned rather seeing Nintendo and SEGA formally team up for good = YES. I said this would have been the way to go after they made squillions on DS and Wii. Sega doesn't seem to know how to use their properties anymore, but has AWESOME classic IPs. Nintendo could really benefit from having those IPs only exclusively appear on Nintendo cosoles from now on, effectively making Sega a 2nd party developer. Or even just wholly owned studio like Retro.

In this day and age, when Sega's relevancy has fallen, and Nintendo needs all the help it can get against the Corporate MegaTwins, yeah, I think that would be a great fit. Who knows that it would ever happen though.....