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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.

But still, it won't be half as successful as Sony+ Nintendo.

Cusack wrote:
>In
> Japan, it's Fianal Fantasy all the way.

Er ... no.
They have some actually decent RPGs to be excited about. Most of which will never see the light of day over here.
FF is a poor flagship for PAL RPGs.

Oooohh! But your name!
Yes, yes, whatever.

Cusack wrote:
> But still, it won't be half as successful as Sony+ Nintendo.

That remains to be seen.

Still, I would have to say I'd prefer something like Sony and Nintendo than Microsoft and Nintendo. Sony did, after all, do an excellent job with the PS1, and I don't want to see Microsoft monopolising yet another industry.

But Nintendo should not be tainted by either of these companies! They have zest and passion, a philosophy on games completely different to these two business giants. They should remain as they are.

But still, sony have already established themselves. What we want doesn't have anything to do with it. Reality is different.

Hardly. Nintendo are far more established in the industry than Sony.

I'd say Nintendo's views are far different from that of either Microsoft or Sony. Fact is, they're staying in the home console business alone and will give Sony a difficult time in the next generation of consoles.

Mav wrote:
> Hardly. Nintendo are far more established in the industry than Sony.
>
> I'd say Nintendo's views are far different from that of either
> Microsoft or Sony. Fact is, they're staying in the home console
> business alone and will give Sony a difficult time in the next
> generation of consoles.
I wasn't talking about quality. I was talking about it financially, I mean to say that sony consoles are a lot more widely spread and popular in the video games market.

Oh no no no... you have nothing to back that up.

Nintendo have sold far more consoles in their time than Sony. The Mario and Game Boy franchises are much more widespread than the Playstation brand.

And quality games will eventually result in financial success.

Mav wrote:
> Oh no no no... you have nothing to back that up.
>
> Nintendo have sold far more consoles in their time than Sony. The
> Mario and Game Boy franchises are much more widespread than the
> Playstation brand.
>
> And quality games will eventually result in financial success.
First of all, I agree that Nintendo has sold at some point more than sony, since the gameboy was the console that sold most units in History, and next comes ps1. But then when you think about it, you'd fid that selling more doesn't necesserally indicate quality . Vice City sold most copies on PS2 than any other console game in History, does that make it best game ever ? Anyway success doesn't necesseraly indicate quality, but it's a factor, especially when it comes to third party companies. Nintendo IS better than Sony , but Sony are currently the ones who are actually accomplishing success.

Sony are ahead of Nintendo simply because of Ninty's mistake in using cartridges for the N64, and the two year difference between the release of the PS2 and GameCube.

Nintendo make the best games and with a good release date for the N5, they should attain an even stronger hold in the market.

Mav wrote:
> And quality games will eventually result in financial success.

Well, that's not true.
See Fifa -enter year- vs. Ico.