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Talking Point: The Time Is Right For Microsoft And Nintendo To Get Comfier With One Another

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, but could Microsoft and Nintendo please just stop flirting with one another and hook up? The fact that the two firms have enormous respect for one another isn't fresh information – heck, they collaborated so that
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, for crying out loud – but as the next-generation war looms ever closer, the timing becomes ever more perfect for the kind of Microsoft-Nintendo alliance that hasn't been seen since the "Wii60" days.

Let's consider the lay of the land here. Microsoft is about to launch its
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console, which will be going up against Sony's
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– the latter of which we'll be seeing a lot more of
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. While Nintendo fans naturally have no skin in this particular game, it's fair to say that Sony – as the current market leader – is holding most of the decent cards. The PS4 has utterly trounced the Xbox One in terms of global sales to the point where Microsoft stopped officially stating how many machines it has sold some time ago, and Sony's enviable stable of internal development studios has churned out smash hit after smash hit, including
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and the upcoming
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, which –
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– is shaping up to be something truly special. Microsoft, on the other hand, seems to be saving its powder for the impending next-gen war, although its promise to support
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for the next few years is interesting.

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