Sounds interesting.... I want Mass Effect 2!

Do you know the details behind that deal?  Nintendo didn't find the deal favorable, so they had to drop out - it's hard to speculate how things would have turned out otherwise, but "lesson learned?"  The DS and Wii have shown Nintendo anything but them needing Sony.  They made plenty of mistakes of course, but staying away from Sony was not one of them.

As for the copying issue, I agree, however I still give the innovators more credit for what they do.  If a company copying another ended up making more money than the original, it doesn't feel right, like it's plagiarism or something.  Innovation needs to be rewarded somehow.  In this case, I don't think less of Sony, but do give props to MS for what they've brought to consoles.

@ c0rd, are you suggesting that Nintendo didn't wish that they had had the same sort of success Sony had with the PS1 & 2?

Ehh?  Did I say anything to imply something like that?

Sony was not going to let Nintendo simply reap all the profits like that.  They want their own piece of the pie, and that's disadvantageous to Nintendo, because they don't need another company leeching off their success.  While Nintendo's consoles continued to decline, that was due to problems that began with the SNES, not because they didn't join with Sony's new console.  Now that they've readjusted their strategy, they're doing just fine without Sony.

wow, that site is strongly pro nintendo :P

Free games?  This is M$ we're talkin' bout.

Assassin's Creed 2 exclusive when the first sold well on the PS3?

Sounds more like a fanboy wet dream rather than a reality.

Though if this is true it would be awesome. Might actually touch the XBOX...

For now, definitely in the most likely untrue rumour pile.

Oh and where's the link?

Definitely not true if no site has enough balls to carry this story.

November is fall smartness.

Am with PDF on this one.

And just for the record, I read the thing that guy's sig said to read.... sounds pretty dumb..... Nintendo dropped SONY's prototypes and SONY decided to make their own CD based system... and it turned out to be a success. I don't see how SONY copied.... especially when the article says that Nintendo went to Panasonic after they dropped SONY, and yet there next console wasn't CD based at all..... And the N64 was released more than 1 year and a half after the PS1 right???? I don't see what SONY did wrong... unless entering a new market and doing well in it is a bad thing????

And also I don't see MS doing anything new to the CONSOLE VG industry... I just see them making a few adjustments to ideas that were already there. Even with online, didn't the DreamCast have it first??? And now look??? Although it's arguable as to which service is better, PSN is fully functional now, and Free. Not to mention how well SONY has been pushing digitall distribution, working for MMO's, and bringing new things like Qore and Home.

Yea...great if it happens, as I'll be there for the party!