It would be sweet if MC and Nintendo merged. Exclusive titles from both consoles on one new console*drools*
The new console would still keep the Nintendo brand. Nintendo would have MS funding so they could develop way way way more good, quality 1st party games. The new merged gaming company could take more risks which would make for some pretty sweet advances in the gaming world. As much as its nice for Nintendo to be all independant and stuff, I really can't see nintendo being a contender in the next 10 years. They just don't have the bottomless money pit that Sony and Microsoft has. Even if Nintendo did every marketing thing right...Sony and Microsoft would still push them out of the market eventually. Also, the gaming industry doesn't need 3 seperate consoles.....There's speculation that game prices might get bumped back up to 60 bucks. Well, 3rd party companies would save big time only developing for 2 systems...plus way larger userbase per system. Going into the next gen if there was only 2 consoles that would fix the developing costs dilemna. So ya, I'm all for a merger between MS and Nintendo or Nintendo and Sony. I'd rather have Mario around on one system plus all the other great games that I'd miss out on because it's on a seperate console. Basically, the company that gets to merge with Nintendo wins the console race(if it ever happens)
Hell, maybe i'm just dreaming.
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