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"Sony/Nintendo union"

Just imagine, what if Sony and Nintendo united with each other ? This would be the coolest thing ever ! First of all we'd have the best console ever from every prespective, and we wouldn't have to worry about exclusive games, we would be playing The Legend Of Zelda, Final Fantasy, Metal Gear And Gran Turismo games on the same console! And there might be some of the best hybrid games ever like a "Link" Final Fantasy or a"Jak+Mario" action platformer. There would be also some of the best multiplayer games ever. More companies would support both companies. They would expand, and there would be a major amount of publicity.Microsoft would be more likely to give up the video games industry, and if there was a back compatibility, people would know what they were missing. Better production teams will be established, making use of the experience of both companies.The funds will increase providing a better chance for creating better games. Third oarty comapanies wouldn't have to worry about games that don't sell, like what happens to some gamecube games (remember the timesplitters 2 sales on the gamecube?). And also, if they succeed together, The Video games industry will expand in a small amount of time, and probably will become one of the most profitable industries in the world, and if they really really succeed and the sales would really hit the top, they would have enough funds to actually create a special cable network similar to the internet dedicated for gaming that would have much less cost than broadband, and giving the chance for the greatest number of gamers to play with each other all over the world, and playing muliplayer games would become a great challange (Hey, CNN originally started as a pure cable network) and if we even dream further more we could imagine a ceremony that would be held every year where every console owner in the world would be playing the same game at the same round at the same time all together, it could be a war game where there would be different squads : Marines, pilots, Divers, people who drive tanks, etc.., they could make it an actually realistic world war game where every soldier is controlled by a player!
But actually we live in the real world, and these are just dreams that will never come true, because those greedy developers only care about collecting money for themselves, and they wouldn't share it.

Konami and Square-Enix already work with Ninty. It won't be long until all those game are together on the same console - the Gamcube.

All they haven't got is Rockstar, and Ninty - not it's fans - show much interest in GTA (the only decent Rockstar game). But if they did, it wouldn't be hard to get - seeing as Rockstar have already made deals with MS for GTA.

None of those companies are PS2-exclusive. Only Sony themselves remain so - and they have very few good games to come.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> Konami and Square-Enix already work with Ninty. It won't be long until
> all those game are together on the same console - the Gamcube.
>
>
> All they haven't got is Rockstar, and Ninty - not it's fans - show
> much interest in GTA (the only decent Rockstar game). But if they
> did, it wouldn't be hard to get - seeing as Rockstar have already
> made deals with MS for GTA.
>
> None of those companies are PS2-exclusive. Only Sony themselves
> remain so - and they have very few good games to come.
You're totally wrong. Maybe Konami releases games for the GC, but it's main games like mgs sequals will remain on ps2 and even if they were ported to another console, simply because konami want their game to sell, they don't want what happened to resi evil to happen to them.The sales of Resi evil games DID decrease after becoming gc exclusive, they used to sell a lot more on psx, while it is IMPOSSIBLE for square to release any of the main Final Fantasy games on another console, you know ffcc is a side game, not a main game in the series, that's simply because Sony owns 20% of square. And the deal for Vice City with ms was in exchange for a deal with sony so that San andreas remains ps2 exclusive, and it does matter because Vice City on the ps2 sold more than any other video game in history, and made more profits than titanic.

Even although I love the PS2, it is quite obvious that it is spiriling downhill. Other than ICO, Grand Theft Auto, Final Fantasy and Pro Evolution Soccer there are not many other PS2-only games. XBOX have a load of XBOX-only games. Nintendo also have lots. Zelda, Mario, Wario, Metroid Prime, Luigi etc. are all Gamecube exclusive. As a Nintendo Gamecube and PS2 Owner, I am not bothered if some games don't come out on PS2 but for the PS2-only people that must be quite hard.

It's not just about exclusive games, it's also about popularity and third party companies, I mean more than 70 million have ps2 while about 10 million have GC. Now I think most GC owners have the wind waker or the zelda collection disc, now what if those 70 million played Zelda ? Wouldn't this be great ? It will be a major leap in the video games industry, and I think gamers will be smarter !!

PS2 only, genre leading games:

Onimusha Warlords,
Devil May Cry,
Ace Combat,
Zone Of The Enders,
Gran Turismo,
Virtua Fighter 4,
Ratchet And Clank,
EYETOY!!!! :D
GTA: San Andreas,
SOCOM
Destruction Derby
FFX & X-2,
Full PSX Back catalogue
MGS3 for the moment at least.

I think PS2 owners aren't exactly badly off, it's just not very exciting anymore.

There's nothing that the PS2 has to generate excitement like Halo 2 multiplayer or Doom 3 co-op on Live. Live is about to bring the Xbox to life.

All Nintendo has are Nintendo properties and Resi, not much else :D

Cusack,
you know that sony and nintendo where making consoles way before the PS1?

sony started on a new console the PS and nintendo dumped them because of it.

sony scraped the PS and make a new one called the PSX (the PS was never realeased)

nintendo bought sony out ages ago and there was a big row over the whole lot.

be§§ant™ wrote:
> Cusack,
> you know that sony and nintendo where making consoles way before the
> PS1?

No, completely wrong. Sony never made any console before the PS1. And to suggest they made consoles together is false as well, because Nintendo released their consoles on their own, before Sony released their very own first console in the form of the PS1.

> sony started on a new console the PS and nintendo dumped them because
> of it.

No. They were working together on something (no-one is really sure what, but it wasn't in the scale of a console), but the companies decided to part ways ages before Sony made the PlayStation.

> sony scraped the PS and make a new one called the PSX (the PS was
> never realeased)

The PS was never released? What is wrong with you? The PS is the PlayStation, and if it wasn't released, then why the hell did it sell millions and millions of units? The PSX was a nickname for the PlayStation used by internet sites and magazines for promotional purposes.

> nintendo bought sony out ages ago and there was a big row over the
> whole lot.

Nintendo never bought out Sony. Sony have always been a bigger company than Nintendo, and I really don't know where you got this balls from. They worked together on a couple of projects, fell out, and have never worked together since. You've just talked out of your ass for the whole of the last post.

You've been very mislead, somewhere along the line.

The were working on a project which was researching the use of CD technology in games consoles.

Not a console itself, just basically a CD format.

Nintendo decided that cartridges were the best way for consoles to go and ended the research project with Sony.

Bonus wrote:
> PS2 only, genre leading games:
>
> Onimusha Warlords,
> Devil May Cry,
> Ace Combat,
> Zone Of The Enders,
> Gran Turismo,
> Virtua Fighter 4,
> Ratchet And Clank,
> EYETOY!!!! :D
> GTA: San Andreas,
> SOCOM
> Destruction Derby
> FFX & X-2,
> Full PSX Back catalogue
> MGS3 for the moment at least.
>
> I think PS2 owners aren't exactly badly off, it's just not very
> exciting anymore.
That's just your opinion because you like online gaming, to me nothing is better than a metal gear game, same in most us gamers. In Japan, it's Fianal Fantasy all the way.
>
> There's nothing that the PS2 has to generate excitement like Halo 2
> multiplayer or Doom 3 co-op on Live. Live is about to bring the Xbox
> to life.
>
> All Nintendo has are Nintendo properties and Resi, not much else :D

Personally, I'd rather see Nintendo and Microsoft...


MS seem to have all the non-games side of things perfect.
The hardware is powerful and VERY develloper friendly with special middleware being written to cut the boring tedious side of devellopment and allow concentrating on game design.
Also, MS are one of the most experienced networking/internetworking comanies in the world and live shows this.

Nintendo, meanwhile, are the ultimate in all things game design, from perfectly shaped controllers to the most fluidly playable games around.
It'd also mean we'd have Nintendo and Rare develloping for the same games platform again.



Shigsy has already hinted that he'd like MS involved with the DS, especially when it comes to the wireless networking.
It could be the start of a BEAUTIFUL friendship...