Det har varit gott om samarbeten mellan Microsoft och Nintendo under de senaste åren, däribland med en Super Mario-utgåva av Minecraft, Banjo Kazooie gästandes Super Smash Bros Ultimate samt att Ori and the Blind Forest och Cuphead släppts till Switch. Så hur är relationen mellan företagen idag?
Om vi får tro Xbox-bossen Phil Spencer, så är den suverän, och tydligen har han god kontakt med Nintendos toppar. Här är vad han hade att säga om saken i en intervju nyligen:
"The relationship with Nintendo is great. Doug Bowser and I, we talk often. Furakawa-san, the CEO of Nintendo, and I know each other well and we have conversations."
Däremot verkar det som att vi inte ska räkna med så många fler Microsoft-spel till Switch. Även om Spencer säger att Microsoft har "a ton of respect" för Nintendo, så är han inte förtjust i spekulationerna om vilka Xbox-spel som kan tänkas släppas till Switch:
"I will say that I think the individual IP by IP to different platforms, I can see [it] can kind of get confusing to customers over time. We've been learning, some of our development partners have really wanted to go do this, and we want to support the desires of our creative talent. Some of this have been partner lead.
I think more and more about what does a full Xbox experience mean on different platforms. Right now, it seems like when any game comes out, there's that, "is this one going here, is this one going there." I'd rather be able to set more of an Xbox-level expectation for our fans on where things are going to go. I thought we did that with our first party when we talked about games shipping on Xbox and PC, and I got some blow-back from certain people in certain groups on that, but at least we set an expectation on that. I'd rather see us get to that point on the different pieces of hardware we're on, so I guess I'll kind of leave it there.
I definitely have a ton of respect for the role that Nintendo plays, and I love having great games on their platform. I don't really love this idea that for every one of our games, there becomes this little rumor on it "is it going to end up on the Switch or not." I feel we should set a better expectation with our fans than that."
Cuphead gästspelar i Super Smash Bros Ultimate.
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