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by dynamite-ready
1987 days ago
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It's actually been a long standing trend since the start of the PS3/Xbox360 generation. Iirc Sega had to merge with Sammy to weather the storm. Especially after losing so much money in the previous generation on the Dreamcast. In that period, the Japanese videogame market shrunk a great deal, and many Japanese developers either went out of business, merged, or courted western publishers. https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/222192/Japans_console_ga... So I wouldn't have thought a Microsoft takeover attempt would have truly been laughed out the room at that time. But Nintendo are a very unique company. Much like Ferrari in Italy. Very few brands in the world like it. They would have found willing backers that cherished their independence. |
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