Nintendo never produced amazing hardware but their games are great. Which is why I believe that if Nintendo goes 3rd party they could potentially double their sales.

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I'm going to say it and will probably will get disagrees. But I would like to see Sony and Nintendo fuse just in regards to gaming. Just think all Nintendo and Sony games on one system. Apple would have to make a system haha. and Microsoft would probably freak out. But now i am rambling on. goodnight world.

I'm sure they'll be fine, while their games don't appeal to me, millions of people worldwide love them.

Pokemon and Mario games sell millions, so there are no worries for Nintendo as a developer.

Nintendo already said if they stop making hardware they won't become a software company.

I must ask, if the Wii-U were to fail, and the 3DS were to continue to strive (like it is doing at the moment), why would Nintendo become a software developer, why not simply put all their efforts in the 3DS?

If the PS4 were to be cancelled (inside Sony, outside they would simply never announce it), would Sony's first party studios go multiplatform, or would they simply shift their work to the Vita? I'd say the latter makes more sense.

For as long as they have a successful system on the market, may it be a console or a handheld, they [Nintendo in this case] will support that system. It's not like game developers that are working on console games can't work on handheld games.

Hell no, it's not black and white.

reason 1: People will always have the mentality, that if it's not on a nintendo system, it's not a nintendo game. Lets use Banjo Kazooie for example, a game known as a nintendo 64 exclusive. comes out on the 360, sells horribly compared to the Nintendo 64 title. Why? Because it is known as a nintendo game, and those only sell well if they know its on a nintendo console.

Reason 2: They make a lot more money on their games on their consoles. They are the publishers, they get all the money on their games. While others have to pay the console maker a pretty big fee to be able to release it on the Wii.

Reason 3: They don't just make money on games, they make it on accessories, memory cards, on the Console, ect... It's very profitable for them.

Reason 4: They won't have creative freedom. Would if before this gen started, they started becoming a third party developer. They went up to microsoft and said "Hey, I have this great idea, make this system entirely based on motion controls! It will sell like crazy" well microsoft would say "your nuts" and we would have never had the motion control boom.

Nintendo would dominate. How much money would Microsoft pay for a Mario or Zelda exclusive? That $50 million for the GTA 4 add ons would seem like chump change.

If Nintendo were to SOMEHOW get kicked out of the console market, it'd be EXTREMELY boring.

We'd have just the Sony console, and the Microsoft console. 2 systems that have standard control pads and libraries in which 95% of the games out there would be shared between the two systems. We'd have two consoles that basically do the same thing and play the same games, the exact same way. Only difference would be one would have Halo and the other would have God of War.

sony and microsoft will endup building PC'S nintendo are still innovating the console market

I think Nintendo could make it as a 3rd party dev, but if their console market fell through (which it probably won't for a while yet since the Wii was purchased by every1 and their grandmother) they would probably put their games on another console while still keeping their handheld going.

Nintendo changes the game everytime they come out with something new. But they get over took by Sony and Xbox sometimes. They're geniuses that would rather make games for the younger crowd. Imagine if Nintendo and Sony merged.

This is a stupid ass article for alot of reasons

1) Nintendo is the top software seller worldwide every year for the last 25 years in terms of units sold and revenue

2) The 3ds has started better than any system ever in its first year. So how exactly is ios cutting it up?>

3) just stupid

Nintendo would be fine, though I think their games.. would take a hit.

I'm more curious about the rest of the industry. The common belief is/was that 3rd party developers could never sell games on Nintendo platform because Nintendo dominated them.. what happens when that spreads to every console? Do 3rd parties just pack it up?

yes my fantasy is to play a zelda and/or mario game on a ps3 using all the abilities of the ps3.

Crazy and funny how Nintendo a company that had 2 wildly successful hardware systems not to mention the truck loads of software sold and cash made, that we are reading a post about a hypothetical Nintendo going multiplat on competing systems! That's not even logical right now and when people compare Nintendo to sega and say oh well sega was doing good also. Sega wasn't the dominant company in the handheld segment either during those times. The more likely scenario would be Sony Computer Entertainment and Nintendo merging once again to produce software and hardware for one joint system. Neither company has the cash to compete on the level that Microsoft can and both companies are Japanese at heart and have worked together quite sometime ago to develop what is now the playstation. If Apple joins in the war for the fight of the living room this may become a reality by the time the next generation of consoles role around, after the Wii U, PS4 and all....

Dont you people read history.

Nintendo tested going 3-party back in the days of the SNES by developing games for the Sony's playstation-snes and Phillips CD-i. But Sony thought Nintendo were a third-rate company and tried to swindle them in a deal that gave all royalties and ownership of the titles to Sony. The Phillips CD-i did not meet nintendo's expectation for an entertaining console for kids. So nintendo decided that in order for thier games to meet the expectations for thier audience they would have to make thier own system permanently.

You all seem to think that the Gamecube was a failure, but here's the thing; it was a success in the sense that the Gamecube made Nintendo money. The reason why Nintendo can afford to sell only a few million consoles and still be okay is the fact that they unlike their competitors make money on each console sold. Nintendo could survive even if they never made another video game again. Nintendo isn't stupid, they will continue to make consoles, and they will continue to make money.

For almost a decade now, various people have predicted Nintendo's doom because a "superior" rival console is in the works that is so amazing, it will apparently force Nintendo to go the way of Sega. But it never happens.

"Nintendo will go the way of Sega! The gimmicky DS will be no match for the superior PSP!"

"The DS becoming the most successful handheld ever was an accident! Nintendo will go the way of Sega! The gimmicky Wii be no match for the superior PS3 / 360!"

"The Wii only sold 90 million because of the casual crowd! Nintendo will go the way of Sega! The gimmicky 3DS will be no match for the superior Vita!"

"The 3DS only broke hardware sales records in Japan because of the Vita's expensive memory cards! Nintendo will definitely go the way of Sega! Definitely! The gimmicky Wii U will be no match for the superior PS4 / 720!"

How dare the US do that to such a king angel of a company like Nintendo, i'm standing wth them on this one!

I'm surprised that more companies didn't sue earlier. They lost billions because of his foolishness.

Wait if the US citizens were the ones actually paying for the tariffs where's our refunds!?

Oh, a lawsuit were Nintendo is the good guy...? I did not have this on my bingo card.