Baka_Marimo Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) I've been wondering about this for a long time. When Sega ceased the production of the Dreamcast in the early 2000s and became a pure game developer, their flagship mascot Sonic started to appear on the consoles of their former rivals Sony and Nintendo and today we have loads of ancient Sega games available on PSN. However I'm not wishing for Nintendo to suffer the same fate as Sega. After all it was them who revived the industry in the mid-1980s after the video game crash in 1983. So I've asked myself if there might be other scenarios where this could happen. Obviously there's no chance we'd get to play current gen stuff like Super Mario Odyssey on PS4 but what about much older games? Like for instance anything up to the N64 and all the GB/GBA Pokemon games? I'm aware that Nintendo is still making money on many of them through digital distribution and that the timeframe for Pokemon games has pretty much passed since Sony is trying to forget about the Vita. But still, Sony is currently the biggest player in the global console market with roughly about 42% market share in 2017, so that's a huge number of players who might be spending their money on a game they fondly remember from their childhood before Playstation was even a thing (or just getting started). And yeah I'm also aware that people are already playing all sorts of stuff on their hacked Vitas but it takes things to an entirely different level when it become official. Anyway I'm just curious for a few other people's opinion on this since I'm not an expert Edited July 22, 2018 by GTRP_Lancerlover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Paleblood Posted July 22, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 22, 2018 Short answer: No. 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittet3 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Has Sony even decided to play nicely with the Fortnight cross-platform play yet? (I think it was Fortnight at least) For Nintendo games to come to Sony, Sony would either have to pay a crazy high amount of money for them or join in a joint venture with Nintendo. Since both companies are pretty comfortable in their current markets, there's no need for them to potentially rock the boat. The only way I see this happening is if Nintendo somehow becomes desperate for money or if Sony feels Nintendo is no longer in their market segments. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yuukiyun Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 (edited) With some exceptions in the early days of video game consoles, Nintendo never puts their IPs on systems that aren't theirs. Not to mention that Nintendo probably isn't too happy with PlayStation, considering they indirectly created it. 6 minutes ago, Kittet3 said: Has Sony even decided to play nicely with the Fortnight cross-platform play yet? (I think it was Fortnight at least) Not yet, and it's unlikely they will, unless the backslash gets too enormous. They are however setting a bad PR for themselves, although this certainly isn't enough to even cause any major 'damage' to the company (yet). Edited July 22, 2018 by SunnyCrappyYT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlchemistWer Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 6 minutes ago, Paleblood said: Short answer: No. Short answer: Impossible. ? It will be nice if games like the first Xenoblade and both Baten kaitos come to playstation and with trophy support of course, but Nintendo is a close mind company and also I don't like the idea of get some only-nintendo games on playstation. Nintendo live in it's own world and a lot of fans are happy with that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zarmatura93 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 It's never going to happen. Nintendo is doing fine and they're going to continue doing fine. And I'm fine with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance_87 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 This must be a joke thread... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Willreaper41 Posted July 22, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted July 22, 2018 The last time Nintendo did that we ended up with Wand of Gamelon and Faces of Evil, games so bad I still wake up at night in a cold seat, terrified at what I had played... Anyways the only reason sega tossed out Sonic and its other IP's is precisely because they failed the counsel wars and were reduced to what they are now, basically a publisher. Nintendo on the other hand has such a tight death grip on all its IP's it might as well be trying to crush coals into diamonds. Nintendo is well known for demanding strict guidelines and enforcing the 'family friendly' motto which again was caused by their early attempts to branch out and let others make their games, which was a disaster. Maybe a couple of years ago I might have said they were on the verge of tipping their hand because they seemed awfully desperate but the Switch seems to have saved their sorry asses for the time being, this new president of theirs has also been really improving things it seems. LOOK AT IT! LOOK AT IT AND WEEP BLOOD!!! 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baka_Marimo Posted July 22, 2018 Author Share Posted July 22, 2018 5 minutes ago, Willreaper41 said: Maybe a couple of years ago I might have said they were on the verge of tipping their hand because they seemed awfully desperate but the Switch seems to have saved their sorry asses for the time being, this new president of theirs has also been really improving things it seems. I thought about that as well. Things were looking quite grim with the Wii U but as you said the Switch saved them for now. In fact this thought was sparked by a video I had watched some time ago where it was discussed what could have happened should the Switch fail. Disregarding this hasn't become reality the uploader still makes quite a few good points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willreaper41 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lance_87 Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Squadala! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick_Sanchez Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 honestly, we'd sooner see Halo and Gears of War on Playstation vs NIntendo. Even then Halo and Gears of War isn't happening on playstation so yeah, not happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grifteskymfning Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 2 hours ago, Paleblood said: Short answer: No. Long answer: Noooooooooooo. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Proteus-Ridley Posted July 22, 2018 Share Posted July 22, 2018 Haha wtf. Why would Nintendo ever do that? That's suicide on their hardware business. Nintendo sells hardware to sell the software they develop, and even regarding older titles Nintendo would rather you play them on their hardware. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Z1MZUM Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 The more realistic possibility is to just emulate all of their systems on your home PC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidnightDragon Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 15 hours ago, Willreaper41 said: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS!!! King of Hyrule said “boi” before Kratos made it cool. Yeah, no. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgm4789 Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 The only reason games like the cdi zelda games were notoriously bad was because the developer wasn't exactly a top tier developer(thier only other claim to fame is im meen and its sequel chill manor which are almost as bad and have just as lulzy cutscenes) amd combined with the fact that the cdi was quite the mess of a console is why those games turned out the way they were, it wasn't being on a non nintendo console that caused them to be bad. Besides nintendo have been known for sometimes letting third parties handle thuer ips look at the zelda oracle games and f zero gx, those games were devloped by capcom and sega and turned out great. While we will probably never see mario or pokemon on a non nintendo console, it would be total misinformation and baseless speculation to claim thier games would be bad on non nintendo consoles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ImplyingYouCare Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 inb4 someone brings up the only functional nintendo playstation prototype. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrakeHellsing Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 13 minutes ago, Spyro said: King of Hyrule said “boi” before Kratos made it cool. Yeah, no. But really, it is highly, highly, highly unlikely such a thing would ever happen. Doesn't mean such a thing wouldn't be awesome though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dangisuckatgamin Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Why is this so "impossible". No it's not... It's possible we just all know Nintendo will not stop production of consoles probably for years or if ever... But doesn't make it impossible at all. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Titan Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 I'd rather have cross platform play between ps4 and Nintendo Switch. Nintendo doesn't need to be on PlayStation. Would be awesome though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super-Fly Spider-Guy Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 Every week there's one of these threads and every week people come in and yell the obvious answer. War, war never changes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killbomb Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 I was hoping the Switch would fail leading to Nintendo becoming a third-party developer. Would love to play a Zelda or Mario game on hardware that isn't several years behind everything else and with trophies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AffectatiousDonk Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 1 minute ago, Killbomb said: I was hoping the Switch would fail leading to Nintendo becoming a third-party developer. Would love to play a Zelda or Mario game on hardware that isn't several years behind everything else and with trophies. Lol, I hear ya but I there is something strange about the Switch. As low powered / poor performance as it is, it just works amazingly well. Maybe just software made perfectly for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RadiantFlamberge Posted July 23, 2018 Share Posted July 23, 2018 19 minutes ago, Killbomb said: I was hoping the Switch would fail leading to Nintendo becoming a third-party developer. Would love to play a Zelda or Mario game on hardware that isn't several years behind everything else and with trophies. While it's not near as powerful as PS4 & Xbox One, the gimmick of being able to "Switch" between portable & console may well be what saves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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