....the Wii?
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Nintendo & Sony : next gen console together - just do it
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....the Wii?
revolverjgw
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Completely different people running the show in both companies
I know this could never happen, but I would love to have Nintendo as a Sony first/second party. It wouldn't be good for them, but for selfish reasons that would be AMAZING if that could somehow work out. I wouldn't have to buy and manage two consoles, there'd be a better controller, more power, better online infrastructure, etc. Nintendo just don't seem to have the resources to put together the kind of console experience that I want from them. Plus I'd just like the novelty, I enjoy when historic events like that go down. It would be fun just to be part of that madness.
It wouldn't be good for you either, unless you only like Mario, Zelda and Pokemon. People always seem to forget that making their systems appeal to a broad range of people is what drives Nintendo to innovate with games like Pikmin and Animal Crossing, while maintaining a stable of quality mid-tier IPs (Fire Emblem, Xeno, etc...) and funding niche projects (Sin and Punishment, Bayonetta).
Remove the pressure of having to sell hardware, and the quantity and quality of those efforts from Nintendo would go down drastically.
IrishNinja
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eh i love that prototype we got & think it'd be interesting to see an alternate reality where that panned out, but the corporate philosophy - nevermind deals they have with smaller japanese studios - there's not a lotta incentive here. i can see sony putting any handheld output from their studios on nintendo handhelds though, like MS did before
always weird to see so many gaffers with poor taste on controller options too
always weird to see so many gaffers with poor taste on controller options too
Rhazer Fusion
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Not sure if it will be a good collaboration. Sony and Nintendo's philosophies and ideologies just too different from each other. It would be like Disney teaming up with Todd McFarlane.
i think of all the first parties, valve and nintendo would sooner team up based on them having similar ideology when it comes to game design (and perhaps controller design), but they'd split hard when it comes to things like hardware and online services.
sony and nintendo are even more different. probably the part of sony that matches nintendo the best is media molecule, and they don't really have any influence on what sony does (except, maybe, keeping move around another generation?).
sony and nintendo are even more different. probably the part of sony that matches nintendo the best is media molecule, and they don't really have any influence on what sony does (except, maybe, keeping move around another generation?).
Phoenician_Viking
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Horrible idea. I don´t want a backward company like Nintendo have any saying on a Sony hardware, OS, or game design/variety of genre or new IP.
No it would not.
Yeah, because touch pad, share button, improved analogue stick, and dpad are still the same. While a gamePad with worse resolution on any modern tablet on the market, not multi touche screen done before ideas are new and revolutionary controller lol.
No it would not.
Pretty much.
Terrible Majesty
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Nintendo and Sega are more likely to merge. But this may have to happen if Apple joins console gaming
HovaHovito
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And then wii happened
Raonak
Banned
Top of the class hardware engineers, OS and network engineers who are actually competent, great 3rd party relations with both AAA companies and indies, in addition to their first party studios.
Do people think that Nintendo tried to create a console as powerful as the PS4 with the WiiU, but just got stuck and couldn't do it?
Really? Sony managed to sell well over 300 million consoles over the last 3 gens, all without Nintendo's IPs. I don't think they really care about those overrated characters.
But then the Wii U happened.
They might have actually turned a profit in the end with those "overrated characters"
Unknown One
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Anybody would want the Mario ip and team. It's the biggest brand in gaming. Other than that I don't know. Nintendo hardware is mediocre, yet their games are good.
I don't really understand here on the hugeeee desire to see Nintendo join with Sony as their base market is totally different.
Haven't we learned a lesson from how Puppeter perform on PS3? It flopped. Badly. Not enough? Rayman Legends? It sells lesser than a flopping console Wii U.
The same can be said to Nintendo console here. I totally can't imagine any of the "hardcore" title like CoD, Batllefield and Killzone doing well.
The better synergy would be Sega and Nintendo here where the two main mascot had huge power over kids, and nostalgia power over older demographics.
Nintendo with Valve would also be quite nice considering how Nintendo and Valve come out with their own controller even though, I can see some problem on their pricing policy. Nintendo is famous for maintaning all their game on higher price to maintain their value while on the other hand, Valve is famous for cutting the price of games like crazy which is known to create the new gamer demographic which simply wait for the game to be discount before buying the game.
Haven't we learned a lesson from how Puppeter perform on PS3? It flopped. Badly. Not enough? Rayman Legends? It sells lesser than a flopping console Wii U.
The same can be said to Nintendo console here. I totally can't imagine any of the "hardcore" title like CoD, Batllefield and Killzone doing well.
The better synergy would be Sega and Nintendo here where the two main mascot had huge power over kids, and nostalgia power over older demographics.
Nintendo with Valve would also be quite nice considering how Nintendo and Valve come out with their own controller even though, I can see some problem on their pricing policy. Nintendo is famous for maintaning all their game on higher price to maintain their value while on the other hand, Valve is famous for cutting the price of games like crazy which is known to create the new gamer demographic which simply wait for the game to be discount before buying the game.
Vigilant Walrus
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I believe in games over hardware, so I agree with one-console standard future.
I can buy a DVD player from Panasonic, Sony, Samsung or cheaper brands like Denver. Each have their own way of input, menu, build materials. All they have a common is one standard so all companies can maximize their potential audience.
Different console manufacturers segregates audiences and puts people into boxes. Console exclusives are an evil. It's an evil to keep good games from gamers just because they bought a different box.
Wuttt did I just read here. I don't even........
Since when is it evil to sell unique and exclusive game only for that specific console?
Or worst, since when has gamer been this damn entitled? You choose specific box to buy simply because you see tons of the game released there is what you wanted to play, the promise and prospect in the future is great.
It is simply the choice you make. So why must developers on other boxes which you don't support should cater to your needs? If you really must play that specific games, buy that box. Not the other one. It is basic logic.
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It's as if Sony turned third party, do you guys think they'd still make, example, Puppeteer?
Sad to see so many shitting on Nintendo's hardware and controllers. Especially the latter.
Personally I think the Dualshock is a pretty bad controller; it always gave me cramps after about 40 minutes and the d-pad is absolutely terrible. Qualitywise, the controllers have been quite poor as well. Back in the PSone era I must have bought like five new controllers because they broke so easily. PS2 and the PS3 had the same problem. My friends with a PS3 bitched and moaned about it a lot; went through several controllers during this gen.
So yeah, Nintendo controllers are more comfortable and reliable. My Cube controllers still work like a charm.
Personally I think the Dualshock is a pretty bad controller; it always gave me cramps after about 40 minutes and the d-pad is absolutely terrible. Qualitywise, the controllers have been quite poor as well. Back in the PSone era I must have bought like five new controllers because they broke so easily. PS2 and the PS3 had the same problem. My friends with a PS3 bitched and moaned about it a lot; went through several controllers during this gen.
So yeah, Nintendo controllers are more comfortable and reliable. My Cube controllers still work like a charm.
Wat?
Are there Sony exclusives that are actually core? And I mean actual core, not casual shooty shooty a la Uncharted.
Sony cared that much about the actual core, that there still isn't Demon's Souls 2. They couldn't be bothered with that. Instead we already got Dark Souls. And we even get Dark Souls 2 next year.
Doctor_Thomas
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Sony's hardware, controller, network, marketing and PR people, games.
Nintendo's games.
Sounds like the best scenario.
Nintendo's games.
Sounds like the best scenario.
ElectricKaibutsu
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The... iPad Mini? True the gamepad is worse but barely.
Also, gamepad isn't a tablet, so there's that too.
Edit: For reference iPad Mini's PPI is 163 and the gamepad's is 158.
As long as Wiimote is an option, yes that is the best scenario.
SolarPowered
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Goku and Hercule
flatearthpandas
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I would buy it.
Not exactly surprised at all the hate for Nintendo controllers, but still disappointed with the ignorance. The majority of Wii U owners on Gaf really enjoy the Gamepad. It's a great controller.
Not exactly surprised at all the hate for Nintendo controllers, but still disappointed with the ignorance. The majority of Wii U owners on Gaf really enjoy the Gamepad. It's a great controller.
flatearthpandas
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A Sony exec recently commented on how terrible exclusives were. It's been parroted a lot ever since, sometimes even quoted.
The Maverick
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If Sony was to decide everything ranging from hardware to OS level features, and was willing to give Nintendo total autonomy on their IPs, then I'd love the idea. As long as Nintendo brings the games and Sony basically covers everything else.
Of course, the idea isn't going to be immediately possible for a while. It'd take Nintendo losing total relevancy. And they've lost some, but they aren't irrelevant.
Of course, the idea isn't going to be immediately possible for a while. It'd take Nintendo losing total relevancy. And they've lost some, but they aren't irrelevant.
Umm. You don't consider that comment happen simply because Sony chooses not moneyhats exclusives this time?
I dare to said here. If Sony actually have their big exclusives which is unattainable outside of PS platform, he won't be saying the same thing.
No streetpass? No thanks.
jts
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Not to be rude, but you bought a cheaply built piece of shit that will break sooner or later, that's one thing Nintendo is not able to design I agree.
spookyfish
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Yeah, pretty much all of my moneyz.
The_Hitcher89
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Unknown One
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*Looks at DS4* *Thinks of the rumble, the gyro sensor, the shoulder buttons, the face buttons, the analogue sticks, the speaker, the headphone jack*
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Okay...
JordanN
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I'm split on the Wii.
It was definitely marketable in the beginning. The end of its life though saw such a massive decline and revealed problems compared to PS3/360 some of which can be faulted by its design. Though some of the blame can also be on Nintendo themselves for dropping it.
Even still, Wii is such an outlier and Nintendo [for the most amount of time] really didn't make home consoles that could be marketed easily. I can't imagine PS1 style success stories ever doing the same thing (i.e Wii was based on a gamble, PS1 was built on a solid foundation for games). You might say "PS3" but then I'm also not sure how to classify it, as it had a reverse effect compared to Wii.
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