well listen, i'm not business expert.  i'm an engineer by trade.  ..but as a boy scout i learn that some times you're better off amputating an injured limb rather than trying to save it.  ..or selling my car to the junk yard rather than pay to fix it.  ..or any number of other wild analogies.

MS is in a very differnt position than sony or nintendo.  for MS, video games are more of a side project than a core business.  ..a distraction as many articles are calling it.  there's not a lot of money for them here, not compared to their core ventures.    but by the same hat,.. it won't bankrupt them either so i guess things could go either way.

..i guess it all comes down to what the new CEO's vision is but xbox doesn't really have much of a synergy with windows or office.  it's not going to help them sell more of their core products.  i really don't know what xbox does for MS as a corporate entity.  what's in it for MS?  what's the payoff that makes it worth it to them? i just don't see it

eh.

Nintendo would never buy the xbox division.... Maybe a few odd developers like Rare, but I don't think they would take the shooter devs... Nintendo doesn't like all the violence american games are famous for. They are willing to let it on their console, but they aren't willing to make it themselves.

Secondly, Xbox doesn't sell because of their great first party games. They sell because they have the best third party options. Third parties love the xbox because their shooters sell like crazy on it, and it wasn't as terrible to develop for as the PS3... On top of that Microsoft had an amazing online experience, something Nintendo wants no part of giving their disabling of the messaging system for the Wii U.

At best Nintendo might buy Rare. However seeing that all the core developers left Rare and are now working on other projects, I think that idea has gone to hell,

Nintendo doesn't like purchasing software developers. They are very stingy about that. Chance in hell Nintendo would want to purchase a failing business that has the polar opposite moral goals that Nintendo has.

lol, they have to.  sony simply can't afford to take the loss/lead model.   they absolutely have to aim for quarterly profit even if it means the market share suffers.   look at how they are leaving vita out to die.   had ps4 been slow they'd have left that out to die too.

Erm... yeah if the company cultures didnt clash into a nuclear war. They would never get along.

You already know what happened when Nintendo and EA tried something together. EA is a company with a culture similar to microsoft.

Since when? Measly if any profits from gaming didn't stop Sony from being given junk status credit rating. 

What a sensasionalist article. Also the writer don't know shit about Nintendo. The philosophy of Nintendo is not compatible with what MS (and also Sony, but we are talking about MS here) offers in terms of video games. And their bussines model is different too, most of the big third-party companies are accustomed to console manufacturers pay part of the advertising of their games, that is something Nintendo don't do.

So the problem of poor third-party support on Nintendo consoles would still be present even if they owned Xbox.


Although, Nintendo Xbox. Doesn't sound bad.

Did you read what I wrote? Playstation division posted a profit this quarter, you said it was a black hole that Sony keeps dumping cash into. Which is completely incorrect. I wasn't talking about Sony as a whole. 

That's why I feel like a joint venture "Nintendosoft"  would have to be formed to handle it.  I feel like each companies strengths and weaknesses compliment each other very well, and at the very least Xbox branding in America and Nintendo branding in Japan would be a huge help.

Yeah, the most likely result is implosion, but if they were able to work it out, it would be something special.

Well, I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree about his merits then but that still leaves us with the article and the topic at hand.

You said in another post that asking Microsoft to give up on Xbox because it wasn't profitable was the same thing as asking Nintendo to shut it doors or Sony to just stick to movies and financial services. But there is a significant difference between riding out a difficult time with a division or company that has been stong and profitable in the past and investing in a division or business that even after over a decade of investment has yet to prove that it can be a viable, self supporting venture.

I was thinking the same thing.  I really don't think MS is giving up the xbox brand, just because the living room ties in with everything.  It's their vision of the future that ties in with their other SW delivery vessels, PC, Tablets, phones.