Well, people don't have to work very hard to convince others that everything is not ok at Xbox.  MS is the one convincing them of that.  Less money is being put into that division, for advertising and exclusives.  All of their games are going to PC.  And the price of the XBX just proves it further.  They aren't worried about mending the Xbox brand, at least where HW is concerned.  No, they just want to make some profit off of the HW while the last few are buying it. 

Spencer comes off as someone who is just trying desperately to keep his job.  And these past few days he has been slinging anything and everything at the wall.  "We're the good guys.  We don't keep AAA stuff off of other systems anymore (because we can't afford to.)  Now, buy our timed exclusives, that we paid to keep off of other systems."  "Now, I'm going to be dickish.  The Pro isn't even close to us, because our GPU is 40% more powerful.  Oh, but the OG XBO's lack of power meant nothing and it still competed with the 40% more powerful PS4.  And our S competes with the Pro, even though it is 300% more powerful than it." "Oh wait, we're the good guys, again, Nintendo fans.  When you're thinking of buying a 2nd console, make sure you get the XBO."

Notice how no one from the Big 2 talks as much as he does.  They don't have to, since they are both secure in their positions.

It's all about nuance. If he had sad "pretty good" a lot less people would be wary of that statement, but he had to go all out with extremes. That's just corporate speech then and it's lame.

So technically, calling it "strong" is a lie. Also it seems to be a pretty one sided relationship.

Banjo in Smash Bros for Switch confirmed. :)

I don't think I would be problem here, no way that Nintendo would agree for something like that.

Microsoft are good at simulators. I played their flight simulator games since I was a kid. It's probably why forza is so good. They've been doing that stuff forever, but I like the ips Microsoft buys and dedicated teams to more than what they internally make because they lack creative prowess. Any bit of news that you hear about them it's always based now profit or turning people off because of their stringent milking nature like Ubisoft or ea. Microsoft has money so they can survive the tides in this industry as long as they have the core ips under their belt which are halo, forza, gears and mine craft and three of those ip were essentially purchased into by buying to the company or the ip itself. They don't have a real great developmental track record. I mean if you look at the original Xbox what made it great was that the majority of the stand out titles were PC ports, from tecmo or sega (think about it). I've never not owned an Xbox platform, but I know what games are buzzing on Xbox and ms rarely is it ever first party. Even Phil spencer admitted on gamespot a day ago that they still need to work on their first party. That's something neither Nintendo or Sony have had to admit to anyone because their commitment to first party has strong and noted for generations.

I don't think it would be so bad. Maybe make some new Metroid and Fire Emblem fans ... guess what system they have to buy if they want to play the new Metroid Prime or Fire Emblem?

Halo is a bigger franchise than Metroid ever has been, that'd be a net win for Nintendo and give them a high end shooter franchise. 

No mainline Mario stuff for MS or any EAD games, just Nintendo's table scraps. 

Its not point if its bad or not, point is that Nintendo wouldn't done that, you want see any Nintendo IPs on Sony or MS platforms probably never.

If its ports of older games I think Nintendo should consider it. 

It's not going to hurt Switch sales at all and they get a lot more in return than they're giving and might even give them a few new Metroid or Fire Emblem fans.

Yeah in the past things weren't done a certain way, but 4-5 years ago if asked here, the idea of (real) Nintendo games on iOS/Android probably would have been a similar "no way". 

What you think and what Nintendo is thinking or what they will do, are two different things.

First, smartphone gaming become bigger than console gaming and Nintendo couldn't ignore it any more, second, we dont have real Nintendo games on iOS/Android, those are smartphone games not full Nintendo games, and third, Nintendo was very clear about why they releasing mobile games, because they want in that way to make bridge between mobile and full console games and to use it like market tool for Nintendo consoles and their full games. If you release Metroid Prime on on Xbox thats one reason less for some people to buy Nintendo console and than people would be start expecting also another Nintendo IPs on Xbox.

In any case it won't happen, it's not realistic scenario at all.

Isn't that kinda sad though? I mean MS is nice enough to port their games to Nintendo devices but Nintendo wouldn't even consider porting theirs. Sounds like a pretty abusive relationship to me.