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Questionmarktarius posted...

They're basically the same company already.

In theory. Nintendo is vaguely pulling off Apple's philosophy of locking consumers into a constrained ecosystem at the benefit enjoying content you can't find elsewhere.

Their main disadvantage is being a Japanese tech company. Japanese tech companies have largely been stagnant since the early 2000s since most never prioritized software services as much as hardware R&D. This is blatantly obvious in the fact that Nintendo can make great video games but has no idea what they're doing with system software or online infrastructure.

They're past the point of hardware gimmicks so in theory they could easily port something like BOTW/TOTK to Apple's architecture and suddenly you have the games available on roughly a billion devices; almost all of which (even older ones) are significantly more powerful than the Switch and support controllers with haptics and motion controls.