You are woefully misinformed on the situation if that's why you think what you do. Nintendo would make more money in the short term, that's pretty much agreed upon by everyone. However if you think the quality would go up, then you have no freaking clue what you are talking about.

Nintendo only makes games as good as they do because they need them to sell their consoles. If they didn't have to do that, they could easily fall as low as EA. Look at the highest quality developers in the world, they aren't the third party developers, they're the first parties with some rare exceptions like Valve and Blizzard before they merged with Activision.

Not to mention they would be developing for consoles they don't own. Nintendo listens and responds very well to their internal developers, however the external developers have week long delays for a simple help request. Sony and Microsoft are better in that department but the help that first party devs get is unparalleled.

SECONDLY, if you think the casual games would go away, then again I have to inform you that you are woefully misinformed... Nintendo might not even make most of their games for the PS4 and the Xbox One, that's just what you want them to do, what would probably happen is they would make most of their games for the iPhone and free to play market BECAUSE that is where Nintendo games fit the best outside of their own console.

If you want Nintendo games, instead of spending hours whining about how you want them on the system you are a fan of, go out and buy a Nintendo console. Problem solved!

If Nintendo would make some other kind of games then yes, it would be nice to see them on Xbone/PS4/PC. As it is now, I have little interest in their games so they might as well keep on putting them on their platforms.

The games would be the same, but the best thing that could happen to Nintendo is a fusion with Sony's playstation division bring back a large user base and 3rd party support. Nintendo invented the Playstation anyway.

If you wanna play NINTENDO, then buy a Nintendo HARDWARE (its the cheapest out of all )

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It is hard to find those specs unless you go to dxdiag under "run." I know, i went through that too when Arkham City was $5 on Steam (at the same time that i was debating buying Armored Edition for $60 on Wii U. Sadly it was not to be. Had to plunk down the $60).

IMHO and i know im gonna get flamed, from a HW console stand point. Ninty fell off a LONG time ago. Back in N64 when they decided to stick with cartridges that was a mess up, the GC wasnt so much as bad as it lacked features of xbox and didnt have the DVD player PS2 had among other things. Wii was an overclocked GC far behind the other two and even its wiimote wasnt up to snuff initially. and Wii U cant compete with the four or One.

Now with that being said would Ninty games be better on other HW? I dont know, but it wouldnt be worse

Why do people only want 1 console developer? Competition is good. Stop hating on systems and praise the one you like. Lesson one for every Nintendo hater, look at the way the run their business, its the right way.

good summation. I feel like from an engineering standpoint Nintendo hardware has always been overrated. Here's my opinion:

N64, viewed as vastly more powerful than PS1. IMO actually had several weak points and from what I'm told, was crucially crippled versus arcade Ultra 64 hardware it was based on. Hell, "N64 textures" is still a common bash of GFX, showing that N64 was reknown for poor textures even in it's day. And further, the decision to stay with cartridges was a major blunder. And here again the problem is release date. IMO if you are a year later than the competition, you should easily outpower them. N64 didn't. Ninteno should have released something closer to the real Ultra 64 arcade hardware and blown people away.

Gamecube: another overrated hardware imo. People tend to put it alongside Xbox when imo it wasn't close, in fact much closer to PS2 than Xbox. Hell, I have my doubts the Wii is even more powerful than the Xbox (and Wii is a GC with 50% overclock +64MB additional memory). Doom 3 on Xbox looks better than The  Conduit on Wii. The key here is release date. Xbox was 1-1.5 yrs later than PS2, but blew PS2 away. GC was released the same time as Xbox, yet was trounced by Xbox and didn't pull away from PS2. Another major flaw was the mini-disc format instead of regular DVD's.

SNES: A great system that imo outpowered the Gensis, due to more colors onscreen and better audio. HOWEVER, imo it should have been more, because it release over a year after the Mega Drive. IMO, it SHOULD have been closer to the Neo Geo in power (at an affordable price of course). Then Nintendo would have dominated. Instead it mostly traded blows with Genesis, and Nintendo gave up half it's market share.

Basically my point is if you are releasing a year later you need to significantly upgrade vs the competition, and Nintendo has a track record of not delivering in the past.

Of course I dont even discuss the post-GC Nintendo as they aren't even trying to compete graphically anymore. HOWEVER, I will say that even for what they are, Wii and Wii U are arguably piss-poor designs. Wii U for example, should have ditched backward compatibility and gone with a nice, clean, clean slate design. Even if it wasn't intended to compete with XO/PS4, it could with absolute ease have punished Wii U for little cost. The 32MB EDRAM is also likely overkill for the Wii U, and eats up a lot of cost, they should have gone with ~15 MB. 32 MB's the same amount as XO has, but the difference is XO is in another perfomance league. All in all, Wii U chipset is way too costly for what it is. Heck they could have just gone with a low end AMD APU off the shelf, coupled it with a couple Gig's of DDR, and that alone would have toasted Wii U.