Why are some Nintendo fans so opposed to going third party?

[Soundwave]

Purple said:

Soundwave said:
Because the pressure of having to carry a hardware platform is in part what pushes Nintendo dev teams to try so hard.

Look at how crap Sega is nowadays.

Nintendo will accept a buy-out/merger with Disney, Microsoft, Apple, or Google before they ever go third party IMO.

@bolded: I usually agree with everything you post but this is just nonsense.

The Sega thing I've covered and they are actually very healthy nowadays. Their quality hasn't fully recovered but as I've said, that was more a financial issue (casued by stubbornly refusing to go third party) than anything else.

Your last point is probably true. But stubbornly refusing to reach out to a wider audience is not beneficial to consumers or themselves as a business.

An alliance with Google or Microsoft would give them a much larger audience on their own terms. 

If done correctly a Google-Nintendo phone could outsell all the consoles combined from this coming gen for example.