The future of Nintendo must be on PC – Reader’s Feature

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A reader suggests Nintendo start releasing its games for PC, in order to have a safety net in case one of their future consoles is a flop.

The thing that strikes me most about the arguments over Microsoft buying Activision Blizzard is the inevitability of it all. We all know they’re going to get the go ahead for the deal and the more governments make a pretence of investigating them the more absurd it all seems. Microsoft have money, lots of money, so they will get what they want. It is the way the world works and it’s patronising to pretend otherwise.

There is nothing anyone will do to stop it and it will be several years until it’s clear that all the arguments against it happening were right, at which point… nothing will be done, again. This is the beginning of the end for Sony. You can see they know it from how desperate they’ve been to stop the deal going through, and while it will take a long time for them to fade out of the industry, I feel it’s inevitable. They and Microsoft do essentially the same thing when it comes to games, except Microsoft has 10 times the money.

Nintendo, however, are a very different business. What happens to Call Of Duty and the other Activision and Blizzard games is of almost no relevance to them. However, that doesn’t mean that Microsoft becoming the biggest games company won’t affect them. It will inevitably move the focus more onto Western developers and technologies and game styles that Nintendo has no experience or interest in.

The fact that Nintendo is so different to Microsoft does give them a chance though. Xbox is bludgeoning its way to success at the moment, but I don’t see it making any significant in-roads in Japan or in the kind of family friendly gaming that Nintendo specialises