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Let us hope this never happens. MS culture would destroy Nintendo in short notice.
by sirwhinesalot 3y ago
Let us hope this never happens. MS culture would destroy Nintendo in short notice.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoDon't worry, Nintendo is pretty skilled at destroying itself the way it treats its fans, by suing them.
- aurareturn 3y agoI have a feeling that Nintendo gaming would outlast Xbox gaming.
- adubkov 3y agoThis.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoBecause Microsoft is smart thinking long term and doesn't care about an outdated model of selling consoles anymore, as it sees the future revenues comes from owning valuable IP and monetizing that instead on all the gaming platforms, regardless on which hardware you use to paly it: Xbox, PS5, Switch, Steam, iOS, Android, Linux, MacOS, tablets, smart-TVs, etc., they don't care, they'll gladly take your money regardless if you have an Xbox or not. They're slowly dethatching themselves from the console HW and moving to selling services the same way the detached from Windows and Office as the core products and made more money selling O365 and Azure subscriptions including their arch nemesis Linux. That's why they keep selling CoD to the competitor's Sony PlayStation instead of making it an Xbox excusive like Sony and fans feared they would. People, and Sony, still don't get it, that Microsft's new business model is monetizing IPs and services, not selling more console HW thanks to exclusives like the old days. They'll probably make more money form Candy Crush than Sony makes from Last of us on PlayStation. Holding on to the "console war" ("muh console sold more than your console!") is just silly and outdated. The big money is now gonna be in IP and services, not selling console HW, and Apple also knows this which is why it focuses more on new services for existing customers (ApleTV, credit cards, SOS satelite, etc) and less on selling more iPhones to new customers as the hardware market is already saturated. Nintendo will outlast the Xbox, but Microsoft will outlast Nintendo.
- manderley 3y agoSeems Nintendo IP is way more valuable than what Microsoft owns (and has, by and large, mismanaged)
- FirmwareBurner 3y ago>Nintendo IP is way more valuable than what Microsoft owns Source: trust me bro? Microsft's Xbox division saw ~15 billion of revenue while Nintendo saw 12 billion revenue last year.
- aurareturn 3y agoIP as in Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, etc.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoI strongly doubt that
- BlargMcLarg 3y agoConsoles aren't going to be obsolete anytime soon while the alternatives, PCs and laptops, are more expensive, worse at the same price range, and provide worse handheld experience. Less of a market share maybe, but still a viable niche.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoMS pretty much merged Xbox and PC which is what the comment above you probably meant. From MSs perspective Xbox is just a lockdown gaming PC tied to their store
- ThrowawayR2 3y agoI wonder if the Steam Deck might challenge that. It's already sold more units than I think anyone really expected. It has a library and other capabilities that no console maker can ever hope to match while retaining consoles' convenience.
- DANmode 3y agoDestroying culture could be argued, but Nintendo is an ancient company, by modern definition.
- jiofj 3y agoThey seem to be doing perfectly fine?
- etempleton 3y agoIn what way? A 100+ year old company who is riding high of the success off the Switch and just released a movie that made over a billion dollars doesn’t seem to be destroying itself.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoPeople said the same thing about Nokia when the iPhone launched.
- etempleton 3y agoYou are comparing a purely device manufacturer to a company with the most recognizable and valuable IP in the world. Nokia didn’t have Mario, Donkey Kong, Zelda, Splatoon, Metroid, etc. Also what launched that is a game changer like the iPhone? What did I miss?
- astura 3y agoIt's supremely ignorant to call a 133 year old company who has the most recognizable IPs in the world and 14 BILLION dollars in revenue "skilled at destroying itself."
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoNokia was also a 100 year old company with a 71 billion dollar revenue in 2007. Should I spoil the ending for you, or do you already know it? No big company is invincible just because it's old and makes a lot of money today.
- ThrowawayR2 3y ago"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM."
- astura 3y agoWhat is your point? The comment I was replying to said "Nintendo is pretty skilled at destroying itself" which is objectively false.
- aurareturn 3y agoIBM in this case refers to Microsoft? /sarcasm
- personalityson 3y agoWhat culture? Microsoft makes great games
- asutekku 3y agoWhat games?
- Klaster_1 3y agoLike Starfield, for example. Or the recent Quake 2 remaster. Microsoft owns Bethesda, Obsidian, id and plenty of other big name studios.
- ahoka 3y agoI haven’t tried it, but according to reviews Starfield seems like a generic space soap opera version of No Man’s Sky with loading screens.
- tetris11 3y ago> Microsoft owns Bethesda This... explains a lot. The user-hostile experience, the lack of innovation of their game engine, the ability to buy fantastic reviews. I never knew the two were connected.
- ffgjgf1 3y agoThey began making Starfield years before MS bought Zenimax