ME TOO! THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME!!!!

Partnering with Apple will yield no hardware, it would essentially be the same as being a third party that exclusively makes games for Apple. Long story short, it would be a bad idea.

Yes, XB1 + 360 has shipped more than WiiU has the last 12 months. Heck even the XB1 has outshipped/sold WiiU every Q since it came out.

MS Games division which encompasses a lot of things has been profitable for like 7 years + now. It's best selling year was 1.3b profit.

Nintendo brand is hardly alive and well in Europe either, Xb1 will outsell WiiU in Europe when all is said and done.

Unless MS made the right moves on their part, I don't think even a MS-Ninty combo would come out on top. Japan has become to weak for console sales.

Goats : Several people told you the same thing and any people here with a bit of éducation knows how to express an opinion on these topics, so you should understand the problème comes from you, this childish attitude wont help you

so in short words ,u saying NIN+MS need to unite to take sony ps5 1st place .in the future,, i dont think how that can happen ,, and mentioned a MC and mario

I can't think of two more diametrically opposed idea/philosophies. This merger would leave a bad taste in both fans' mouths. Sony and Nintendo makes far more sense...but that would be terrible as well.

I think that all of this clamoring for Nintendo to go 3rd party or to merge really shows how scared people are of Nintendo's IP's. They know this company is the best in the business at crafting great, enjoyable games that can be played for generations to come.

They like to laugh at Nintendo's missteps at creating hardware, and always forget that Nintendo's missteps are always the future for the other manufacturers. Keep them in the hardware spot, doing what they do, and you won't regret it. They will continue to innovate and create paradigms that the other two will undoubtedly exploit.

Are you actually serious?

That would never ever work!!! Also, I highly doubt they will go 3rd party next gen , since they already started development on future consoles........

Or, hear me out on this one, Nintendo makes a console with good enough hardware to support 3rd party and a good enough network, so we have 3 console?!

Never.

If anything, i prefer to see sony + nintendo for japanese games, the rest is not needed.

Nintendo and Microsoft have very different business philosophies on what they want the video game market to look like so I don't see any major partnership like this being possible. They would never agree on enough.