Topic: Could Nintendo partner with their competitors on a future console?

[Kairon]

Nobody wants a one-console future, basically.

[GoldenPhoenix]

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Originally posted by: Kairon
Nobody wants a one-console future, basically.

Competition is definitely great, look what it has done with the NDS. The system probably has one of the most diverse libraries around with quality titles.

[Ceric]

Apple + Nintendo = Explosion.  They both want pretty much total control over hardware and software.  That ain't going to work.

[Sir_Stabbalot]

Honestly, I think Nintendo would rather go bankrupt then work with its competitors.

[denjet78]

Nintendo doesn't need to, shouldn't, and I'd even go so far as to say can't partner with another company. They function by being control freaks. They were control freaks with the NES and single handedly saved the entire industry. They were control freaks with the N64, which is the reason Mario 64 turned out the way it did and set all the ground rules for almost every 3D game to follow. There's no way in hell it would have worked on the PSX. Not without massive load times and quite a bit of "Okay, there's the platform. Now jump and... Hey? It moved! *dies*". And the only reason the Wiimote exists at all is because they were control freaks about that too. If they had been tied to Sony or MS or another technology company only interested in taking over the industry in order to sell everything other than games they would have been laughed out of their offices and told to go make a regular controller. Sure they want to take over the living room and all but they don't want people to actually REALIZE that. A remote control shaped controller... Hello! Can you say 'obvious'?

Why can't these companies just be strait forward about their evil intentions?

[ShyGuy]

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Originally posted by: Sir_Stabbalot
Honestly, I think Nintendo would rather go bankrupt then work with its competitors.

[Adrock]

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Ian Sane wrote:
I figure if Nintendo became the only console maker in town they would get more and more isolated and become less likely to work with anyone else. Their success would make them arrogant and they would start to assume that they alone have all the answers. This is what caused Nintendo to lose the market leader spot in the first place. It's what Sony is doing now. As the market leader becomes more complacent they stop paying attention to third parties or consumers and just do what they want to do. Once the market leader thinks that everyone will support them no matter what is when things go downhill and odds are Nintendo would regain that attitude in time if all their competitors dropped out of the market.

I agree though I think (or hope) that Nintendo has learned its lesson. It's hard not to. And I'd hate to think Nintendo could become so careless... again. 3rd parties will only put up with crap if they have to. Before PS1 came along, they had to since Genesis was utter failure in Japan. Nintendo seems to understand now that they and 3rd parties need each other. Or, if you want to be cynical about it, they want to exploit or use one another. Nintendo has proven that they can stay profitable basically support their own hardware by themselves, but they'd make so much more money if 3rd parties came aboard.