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Old 07-02-2003, 11:04 AM   #1
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Default Re: GameCube SP? Wonder what this is about.

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Well then, wouldn't you still want Nintendo and MS to join up so you could play the next next Metroid and the next next Perfect Dark on one system?
On the other hand, if Nintendo and Microsoft join forces, they won't be competing with each other any more. If Nintendo could have gotten away with it, I'm sure they would have stayed with the N64 tactics of delaying, delaying and delaying some more and not developing new franchises. And that just might have happened if Nintendo had only Sony to deal with. They made enough profits last generation, after all.

We can't know for sure what might have happened if Microsoft had never entered the market or what will happen if the two companies join forces, but I have a feeling that a lot of the improvements in Nintendo's software development such as fewer delays, more exclusive games being pumped out and more mature games is the result of them having a fire lit under their seat.

So we wouldn't have the next Perfect Dark and the next Metroid on the same system. On the other hand, a merger might mean we wouldn't see Too Human. Why would "Nintendosoft" need Silicon Knights games when they have the resources of Rareware and bunches of other developers already?
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Re: GameCube SP? Wonder what this is about.
Old 07-02-2003, 02:07 PM   #2
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MS Merger with Nintendo, Nintendo fans would get:
-More Sega support, Nintendo guys would get thier 2ks back
-Online gaming
-Rare back home
-Halo, along side a whole slew of popular mature games, and *gasp* some exclusive fighting and racing games... and even some RPGs?!?!

I think them coming together would be just fine

As for Xantar's post, I think that they would still use every resource they have until they pass the other guy they are competing with... Sony. It's not just Nintendo and MS in this gen, if one were far enough ahead of the other, it wouldn't be relax time, they would have to work even harder to top Sony.

If anything the delays would be for the good, no more rushed games. Games that are good but not marketable (in Nintendo's current state) could get a huge push from MS, and MS could stop putting so much money behing marketing half assed games.
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