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bunchanumbers on 23 January 2016
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Aeolus451 said:
Soundwave said:

 

The problem is not all their games would be around. 

Being a hardware maker forces you to produce a wider variety of games than you would otherwise. 

If they become a third party, it'll just be the big IPs like Mario Kart, Mario, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Zelda, that will get made over and over and over again, because as a third party they don't have any responsibility to build the overall platform, just to sell as many games as possible. 

Which is fine if you like those IP, but it would suck for those of us who like things like Kid Icarus, Star Fox, Xenoblade, Punch-Out!, F-Zero, as a lot of those types of games would get phased out. 

Look at Sega ... all they make is Sonic + Yakuza and a few other IP and nothing else. Compare that to what they used to make when they were a console maker. 

If they have to go third party I'd rather they just choose one of Microsoft or Sony to align with and become a partner with, rather than just becoming a generic third party publisher. 

Hmmm you have a point. That's on nintendo though. They don't really make many new IPs this gen that aren't related to one of their main IPs. Nintendo could just become a bigger publisher than any of the others and work with studios to bring their games to people but still develope their own games. Surely, if nintendo fans spoke out, nintendo would listen especially since they're purely a video game company. 

Yeah, that's why Sega made Phantasy Star 5, or made Bayo 2 and Shenmue 3 happen. Once they go 3rd party its over. Do you really think they care what a vocal minority of gamers want when they are 3rd party? Those vocal minority sales matter to Nintendo now because they also buy consoles, peripherals and other Nintendo games. Once Sega went 3rd party they were done. The exact same thing will happen to Nintendo. Becoming bigger like you say means they need bigger sales to support themselves. They won't get those sales from niche nintendo games.