I don't see why they don't if this dosen't work out

Just let Sony and the like do some big games on their system but continue their efforts on the handheld market with the 3DS and beyond

You never know if it works out Microsoft and Sony might let Nintendo use some of their games/characters for the handheld.

Not gonna happen but a decent read.

Cause some of us would still rather play & own a Nintendo console

I'm sorry but as a PC owner, the PS4 and Xbox One are boring consoles. The Switch is actually an exciting piece of hardware.

I'm glad Nintendo are in the industry cause atleast they're taking risks and trying things new. If it weren't for them we wouldn't have rumble in our controllers or analog sticks or motion controls. They may not have been first to do it but they made them industry standard. And everyone else just followed, hey Kinect and PS Move...

Because they wanted to capitalise on the handheld market they corner.

The Switch is 100% a handheld. Third parties making games for handhelds such as DS are there, remaining that it is a 3rd party console, you just haven't heard of the 3rd party companies.

Why should it?

Guys we need Nintendo in this business, I'm a big Playstation fan but camon they are important, they make something different and we should be grateful for that.

To be honest i dislike Nintendo for many reasons but i think they should stay first party and making consoles. I loveddddd Sega and it was sad seeing how far they fell ditching consoles and going third party. Sonic has never had the same magic since.

its clear they've lost their way with console hardware so why not? licensing IP to Sony/MS and even Steam would give them the install base they've been missing since the original Wii popularity started to fade.

They saw the initial successes of the Wii and keep trying to capture that. The thing is though, once the novelty of the Wii wore off, what you were left with was an overclocked Gamecube that couldn't run the "other games" people were playing. By the time the Wii U came out, the jig was up.

People just want good game libraries with lots of support and popular games running the best they can on consoles at the end of the day. any new stuff people have come up with hasn't been nearly as successful as just a simple console and a controller. the kinect is a ghost ship, there were literally like 2-3 titles on ps4 that support the camera at most, the ps move controllers were almost discontinued until they found new life in psvr and nobody is really pushing motion sensing controllers outside of higher end vr. definitely nobody is using control mats and balance boards anymore, hell we don't even know how psvr is going to be doing a year from now. doesn't seem to be much love there right now either.

It comes with the risk of there having to be someone else's success for you to survive. Saying that i think Nintendo would do amazingly well as a third party developer.

i dont get most of you people why are you trying to get rid of competition so badly ? if MS and nintendo puts all their games on sony's platform what do you think is going to happen ? i can bet any amount of money that the console gaming community would go to sh-t. but that's really fine with me becuase it's a good thing that whatever happens on console would not have any effect on my main platform and that's PC so keep doing and asking for crap like this and you will see the outcome and i know console gamers won't be happy

Why don't you keep your opinions to your self

If a company isn't broke like Sega was when Peter Moore changed their DNA then they shouldn't. If that never happened to Sega these stupid articles wouldn't be written.

Additionally, Nintendo hands down has the best Ip'S in gaming and can make so much money for themselves and their partners like Universal and hopefully Disney etc. They already have s film coming out with Sony.

You also forget that the handheld market and mobile market isn't making a loss, their amibo line isnt making a loss and the wii U has been put to bed fast. These idiotic stories need to stop.

I am not a fan boy before I hear that crap either as I have the other two systems. You hate is what has given the Switch so much hype. Remember this.

Nintendo is still VERY successful in their own right. People seem to forget that out of the big three, Sony and Microsoft are not made solely for the production of games. Nintendo is - therefore, they can focus on consoles and software. That's why their first-party titles are plentiful and consistently are of a high quality.

The same reason why prankster101.com won't just shut down and do guest article for other websites.

it's most likely due to Nintendo desire to make profit in 4 fronts:

1. Software. (games, dlc, etc.)
2. Hardware. (the consoles, acessories, etc./ different from sony and microsoft Nintendo sell consoles that considerable gains)
3. Royalties. ( Yhey have a share of every software sales on the nintendo console, every publisher needs to pay nintendo X for every product that is on a Nintendo console.)
4. Network. ( subscription service like PSN and XBL )

now... aside form loss in status, nintendo as a Third Party Developer would be in a single front, the software front, alson Nintendo would, most likely, need to pay Royalties to Microsoft or/and Sony.

There is no doubt, as Third Party Developer nintendo would sell more software, but, imho, they would be at loss since hardware, Royalties and network can net in some impressive profits is the consoles make good number.

Here is the catch, Nintendo doesn't need to win the generation, they just need solid sales numbers on hardware. if they sell a good number in hardware they make huge profit, cause all 4 fronts are connected and will make profit, on ther other hand, if hardware fails they are at a loss, cause the hardware profit will be too small and the other 3 fronts, that are connected to hardware, will alson be small.

Because console design would become stale with out them.

Because apparently people like paying a few hundred extra dollars just to play a couple first party games on an underpowered console every generation. /sarcasm

Because dreams dont come true, lol.

Because they offer what the others don't. Nintendo will never go third party, their games don't belong on other consoles

Because while their consoles haven't been doing so hot lately, their handhelds have always done just fine. In fact, that's probably a huge reason why the Switch is designed with portability in mind. It's the same reason why MS wants to make their consoles more PC-like: because that's where they've had the most success.

It's possible that Ninty will go third party if they reach the end of their rope, and indeed the Switch may be their last chance to turn things around, but their 3DS has probably been instrumental in keeping them afloat. It will certainly be just as odd seeing Ninty games on other systems as when Sega started doing it, if the time comes. I think the solution is for them to figure out why their systems were a great success in the past, and why they haven't been now. I think it's pretty obvious to gamers, but they seem to be struggling to figure it out.

Horrible idea.
I like their handheld division, though I don't get every piece of handheld hardware they put out, it still keeps the dedicated handheld market healthy.

You would think a group of accountant could determine if selling a hundred million games on Steam/PS4/XBox would be more profitable than selling a few million games plus the consoles.

They would be - BY FAR - the biggest publisher in the world. Bigger than Activision-Blizzard, EA, and Ubisoft.

Kudos for the title

If Nintendo goes, then this community will start saying "oh we don't need two of the same consoles, why doesn't Xbox go third party" I don't see the fascination with taking out the competition.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau