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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.

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 !!

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.

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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

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:
> All Ninty could use is Sony's Western popularity. That's it.
> Anything else Sony brought to the table would be inferior.
You forgot the support of big third party companies like rockstar-konami-square,etc... and that's a lot, I mean the best game in last year's e3 was mgs3, and final fantasy is always the best in tgs, and this year's best game is the new zelda.Now imagine these alltogether on the same console.

All Ninty could use is Sony's Western popularity. That's it.
Anything else Sony brought to the table would be inferior.

I don't want Nintendo to merge with Sony nor Microsoft.

They've got twice the talent of those two put together, and an undying passion for making good games - an increasingly rare quality in game publishers today. They more than deserve to be a driving force in the industry by themselves.

Rikimaru Dark wrote:
> Thats the thing Cusack if MS/Ninty joined together Japan would have a
> new favorate. No one will stand by Sony apart from extreme fanboys if
> Ninty and MS merged.
That's completely wrong. Currently the ps2 sells a lot more than the xbox and the GC together, suppose they merged together, their sales will greatly increase, but they won't be as good as sony. Besides, if sony merges with any company, they would have the best chances of success, more than any othrt 2 companies apart from sony.

Interesting... on what facts is your theory based? Japan couldn't give a flying f(*k about M$ so I fail to see how it would add anything to Nintendo's marketshare.

Thats the thing Cusack if MS/Ninty joined together Japan would have a new favorate. No one will stand by Sony apart from extreme fanboys if Ninty and MS merged.