Phil Spencer Receives An NES Mini From Nintendo

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KLAMarine on 08 November 2016

Kerotan said:

RolStoppable said:
The headline makes it seem like Nintendo gifted him one, but I don't infer that from the tweet.

Anyway, it's usual PR work. Everyone loves Nintendo when they don't do well.

It's so cynical but the likes of me and you see right through it. if Nintendo were a threat to MS like Sony are you'd never see this from them. PR will be PR though so it's to be expected.

Are you saying Microsoft would never tweet something positive about Sony?

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mountaindewslave on 08 November 2016

I would like to pick up an NES classic just for ease of use for newer flatscreen TVs, I hear theres like no LAG and the direct connection to HDMI is very nice. Would be great for older family who don't like hassling about plugging things in (this is quite simple rather than being forced to use a converter with an older system).

But unfortunately the system appears meggaaaaa oversold, can't preorder any right now and I've heard claims that the next batch of 'preorders' won't arrive until nearly xmas. lame. hopefully the rumors are false because it seems like Nintendo potentially has wayyyyy under produced this

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mountaindewslave on 08 November 2016

RolStoppable said:

Soundwave said:

XBox One is trending towards 40 million LTD, if you could involve Nintendo I think that would bump to 60-70 million. 10 million more from Japan right off the hop where MS has basically 0. An additional 10-20 million from EU/Americas.

The combined effect of both Nintendo and MS libraries and full third party support would in general create an overall more appealling singular platform as a whole anyway which would siphon off some Playstation users too. Super Mario + Halo + Zelda + Minecraft x Nintendo + Gears + Smash Brothers + Mario Kart + Forza + Metroid and all third party multiplats is a platform even Sony would have some problems matching up with, they'd have Uncharted + uh ... Gran Turismo + the same multiplatform games.

So now Nintendo has become a third party publisher for Microsoft? How is Switch supposed to sell 50-60m units when Nintendo is going to be busy putting their best games on Xbox?

ignore Soundwave, he's been spouting this nonsense of Nintendo being BOTH a hardware maker and lending their IPs to Sony/Microsoft for ages with some sort of delusion that it in any shape would help Nintendo in the long term

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Soundwave said:

RolStoppable said:

That sounds like an incredibly stupid partnership. Nintendo gets to distribute the toxic Xbox brand in Europe and Japan/Asia while Microsoft gets Nintendo games on their platform. You need to go back to the drawing board.

I would say a equitable or favorable deal (for Nintendo) would be

Microsoft Gets:

- Certain Nintendo games and VC games on XBox and Windows PC platform. Nintendo chooses which ones (minimum of 3-4 console titles per year).

- Nintendo design input/support into hardware/controller design.

- Shared profits in Minecraft x Nintendo collaborations and Minecraft Amiibo toys.

- Can publish on Switch with no licensing fees.

- No Nintendo games on Playstation formats; obviously this would generally make the XBox brand far more competetive worldwide.

- Potential of maybe Windows mobile OS used in future Switch iterations.

- Agreement by Nintendo for the length of said contract that they will not make a dedicated home console to compete against XBox directly. Switch and other portable centric platforms are allowed and fully supported by MS.

Nintendo Gets:

- Co-branding of XBox worldwide (meaning Nintendo logo is on the hardware alongside MS logo).

- Distribution of XBox hardware in Asia/Japan and possibly EU markets (Germany, France, Italy, etc.).

- Input into hardware designs.

- A 20-40% cut of XBox third party royalty fees and no royalty fees charged on their own XBox console software (100% take home profit)

- Microsoft Software support for Switch (Halo Switch, Banjo-Kazooie Switch, etc. etc.)

- MS covers marketing costs for Nintendo's XBox titles.

- Perhaps on top of that just regular ol' money bags too.

Godamit, thats a horrible deal for Nintendo.strictly speaking, short term speaking(2, 3 years) Nintendo would make more money, simply because of a higher installed base(releasing on 2 consoles).But in a middle to long term, hell even in a short term too, it would destroy Nintendo brand.As rol stated, Xbox brand is still toxic, due to their decisions earlier this gen.Not only that, but Nintendo brand is far stronger than the XBox brand.And XBox would get all big Nintendo titles, but the Switch would get qatered down games of Microsoft IPs.How in the hell that is remotelly a decent deal?Not to mention as a (somewhat) third party developer, and that stupid deal of having to launch 3 or 4 big tirles every year just for XOne(and Microsoft wouldnt need to fo the same lol.How stupid of a deal), they eould need to answer to someone, restraining creativity or just plain rushing games and lowering the overall quality of games.Do I really need to go on?

My (locked) thread about how difficulty should be a decision for the developers, not the gamers.

https://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=241866&page=1

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Cloudman on 08 November 2016

I wanna know how he got a Mini NES so soon.

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Kerotan on 08 November 2016

KLAMarine said:

Kerotan said:

It's so cynical but the likes of me and you see right through it. if Nintendo were a threat to MS like Sony are you'd never see this from them. PR will be PR though so it's to be expected.

Are you saying Microsoft would never tweet something positive about Sony?

I'd be happy to be wrong but I doubt they'll be tweeting a picture of the ps4 pro in the next week.