This. I'm sure Liam's been wrong before, yet people still go crazy over his 'insider' claims. I feel like half of these so called insiders are just attention seekers.
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(RUMOUR) Nintendo and Microsoft are working on big things together
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Give me a GoldenEye remake. Go all the fuck in. X platform. Let's go.
Make GoldenEye great again.
Make GoldenEye great again.
It isn't though. Nintendo could just throw all the N64 games from the Wii Virtual Console onto a classic console and it would still sell like hot cakes. When people hear they can play Mario Party, OoT, and Mario Kart 64 on an HDTV it'll sell itself.
Would no Rareware games suck? Fuck yea it would. They still have plenty of 1st party and 3rd party titles to remedy their exclusion though.
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Xcloud and Gamepass on more platforms. Google's game streaming service is just around the corner and Microsoft knows this, if they can secure Nintendo hardware for their services it would be a huge get.
And who knows, maybe Nintendo would be willing to add some of their games into Xcloud.
It can sell 3x the number of hot cakes.. when people see in the box that it has Goldeneye or Banjo
Which I think is what Nintendo wants.
But generally honestly I think that N64 Classic won't do anywhere near as good as SNES or NES classic. It's a harder product to sell. Rare games and the party factor (4-player multiplayer) missing from it could make it fail.
This all seems pretty good for Nintendo. I bet we see something Nintendo on xbox too. It wouldn't be a 1st party game, but maybe something like Bayonetta 3 could show up on the xbox. That would be pretty neat.
Miyamoto didn't hate DKC. That was entirely a mistranslation.
Back to Xbox? They never really left. The vast majority of Japanese games with some semblance of a market on Xbox get a multiplat release barring Sony moneyhats.
Now we're talking.
Why does Microsoft cover the high end? It's not like Nintendo can't develop a more powerful system. They simply don't fit in that market.
I don't see the synergy here outside of Nintendo using xbox live
With the move towards online platforms and services I just don't see it. I don't see what Nintendo gains.
Nintendo gains the ability to achieve those services. I'm not sure they have the capability, themselves.
Microsoft sells licenses to live SDK, Nintendo develops future online service on it and takes advantage of all existing SDK features
One can only dream
One can only dream
Or my favourite squirrel? I think my excitement levels would be too high if out of left field they announced Conkers Bad Fur Day 2 : 2 drunk 2 furry
I totally forgot about Phantom Dust. Man, the community could get a 2nd life on Switch.
Edit: i think it Ms can bring over Mistwalker's games to Switch, it would probably sell better worldwide and in Japan than anywhere else. Give Sakaguchi his big payout.
Wow. The rumors just won't let Scalebound die in peace.
I am not getting my hopes up for anything though..but where's there's smoke there's firecrackers.
I am not getting my hopes up for anything though..but where's there's smoke there's firecrackers.
Considering that Xbox One X and the Switch are currently my 1st and 2nd gaming device respectively, if there's more overlap between the two, even better. I'm already happy about the crossplay and the crossprogression on some titles. Bring me a couple "cross-exclusives" of sorts and Game Pass/xCloud for my Switch, and then I'll be a really happy person.
If Playtonic was going to make the game why would they even bother putting it on Switch? I don't really see the logic in that. Extra development costs to lose an exclusive and nintendo is not even helping to make it?
All the games you mentioned are on Rare Replay which would make sense to be a port.
I noticed a while back during the sea of thieves developer update videos just how much Nintendo paraphernalia was dotted around the Rare studio, and this clearly wasn't just remnants of the old Nintendo ownership days.
There certainly seems to be some kind of collaboration going on.
There certainly seems to be some kind of collaboration going on.
Yes but they tie their userbase to a third party competitors service. Not a good way to achieve those services.
The games wouldnt run on switch though so gamepass wouldn't work.
xCloud however, would be something they could work with if they could get it working on Switch.
xCloud is true. There are some games that could work on the Switch. Lot's of indie stuff, Killer Instinct and Master Chief Collection ports, and of course new games made by Rare.
Rare is actually pretty technically savvy, I don't know Sea of Thieves requirements on PC but on 360 Rares games were some of the technical best.
They could always have scaling settings I guess, it would just be more work for the developer.
The developers of Ori and the Blind Forest were teasing "something that would shake the industry" sometime before Christmas... Maybe that could be coming to Switch?
Same as with the MS/Rare games on Switch thing. It's wishful thinking as of right now.
But seeing as how many are port begging for Xbox games in this thread, I really don't see the issue in doing the same for Nintendo games on Xbox.
Nintendo's games are infinitely more valuable than any software Microsoft could trade with them. It literally makes no sense for them. Might as well go third party otherwise. This thread isn't representative of reality.
I'd argue it doesn't really make sense for MS either. At least not in some of the ways that are being suggested in this thread.
Now, if Sea of Thieves, Rare Replay, Halo, Ori or any of MS' established 1st party games gets ported to / made availaible through Xcloud on Switch then the situation will change drastically.
Until then, I'm just not seeing it happening any time soon.
Microsoft literally has said that there strategy is to bring their games to as many platforms as possible.
And while the Switch has made progress on Nintendo lacking mature games targeted toward Western male audiences, Microsoft would help that out. I can definitely see a Halo title on the Switch. It was once considered for the DS.
That said, I can see this being more realistic if there is some type of Microsoft app store you have to use or something.
I think this partnership is more of allusion to what Microsoft is expecting Google to bring to the table. They're trying to cover all bases, and finding a way to benefit from what's guaranteed to be the hottest console for the next 1.5-2yrs is way to bridge the gap to the next Xbox. Google might really have something legit.
They'd need MGM at the table for that. Don't hold your breath.