nanoUFOMicrosoft’s Phil Spencer says acquiring Nintendo would be ‘a career moment’
GranixoPlease do it.
Ninendo is better at anyone’s hands but Nintendo’s.
GregorGizehAh yes, more monopolization please. That sure worked out great every time we tried it
At least it would be TRYING to have more reach to consumers.
Nintendo’s strategy of only appealing to kids and only sometimes caring about it’s actual, much larger fanbase isn’t really economically estrategic if you think about it.
Seems to work reasonably well for them considering they have been in gaming much longer than Microsoft.
Because they sell their products at overpriced numbers and their current console is built on 8 year old hardware that even it’s chip makers said it was “outdated” back in 2015.
Yeah, and it's sold more units than the PS5 and all iterations of the current XBox combined, at a profit on every unit. Nobody's out there holding a gun to people's heads to buy the Switch, but they sell FAR more than either of their competitors in both hardware AND software. It sounds to me like you're not actually angry at Nintendo, but angry at the majority of customers in the game industry that don't share your disdain for less powerful hardware.
I don’t have a dissdain for less powerful hardware, i have a disdain for mediocre hardware.
For me, the peak on 3D graphics was achieved on PS3, X360 and the Wii U.
Nintendo simply wanted easy cash and went on with (literally) inferior hardware to make the Switch.
And my main problem with Nintendo is that they refuse to allow easy access to some of their best games.
Why can’t they do a proper remake/remaster of Majora’s Mask for the current generation?
Why do they refuse to release Mother 3 outside of Japan?
When are we gonna get a new StarFox or F-Zero game?
I think it is clear WHY i have a problem with Nintendo.
Let's address these one at a time...
The hardware is weak, but the market has spoken and to them at least, it doesn't matter. Why would Nintendo spend the extra money when consumers have already decided they're going to buy it in droves anyway? So they can spend more on manufacturing and make less profit? Yes, they wanted easy cash. What responsible company doesn't? It doesn't make any sense to spend a dime more on producing a product than what your customers demand. The limitations of the Switch are the fault of consumers who buy it, not Nintendo's. If Microsoft could sell the same number of units Nintendo can by making a game system that cost $50 to manufacture and ran on 386, you can be damn sure they would too.
All of your other problems are perfectly reasonable, but if you think Microsoft's plan if they buy Nintendo is to drop everything and start porting old titles or working on a new Starfox game, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed.