I have owned every Nintendo console except the Wii u(wait until it sells for $100 before buying)

Nintendo hasn't had real third party support since super Nintendo because they still had a monopoly on the console market (they did have some challengers but none of them got a real share of the market)

Once they lost their monopoly to the ps, since then they have been surviving off handhelds and Mario/Zelda. 

The problem with this that the handheld market is their monopoly (please don't bring up vita) is challenged by mobile gaming.  It might go away as fast as their console business but it will eventually resort to Mario/Zelda which is a niche market.

They should be transitioning to a software only company, if they continue this path.

Then again this my opinion and I was to lazy to include any statistics to support my claims but still just my two cents

Nintendo going third party? Not this again. Just look at SEGA.

What opinion? You just stated some facts and some you think are facts...

Going third party won't benefit them neither the other third parties. They need Nintendo Fusion. One console, great library.

They wont go third party. They have been in the console business for over 30 years. They can handle a few failed consoles.

They'll die before they go third party. They're that kind of stubborn. They have roughly ~$10 billion in cash and assets. It'll take quite a lot for Nintendo to go down.

Ka-pi96 said: Would love to see them go 3rd party

Curious to know the reasoning behind this. From what I understand you don't seem to particularly like Nintendo at all aside from Pokemon. Why would it matter to you if they were 3rd party? So you can be disinterested in their games on all the consoles they release on?

That's fine but it would be niche market.  Their market share is being eroded and frankly I will buy their consoles but years after they released and used so they won't see any of my money

Nintendo will never allow it because it makes business sense.

Market share doesn't have all that much to do with the third party support. If it did, the Wii would have had first go of all of it, but it didn't.
You are missing out not owning the Wii U. Some of what you have said has some truth behind it, but Nintendo has been on a big push to diversify their offerings. Do they have COD this time around? No. Is that a shame? It is if you like COD. Did they just release a very good game like Bayonetta 2? Yup. If you are a fan of that kind of game it's great and then you should also pick up Wonderful 101, superb game. Other games you can't get anywhere else, Smash bros, Mario Kart, Pikmin, Xenoblade, Captain Toad. Many of those games don't have any similar play styles on any other system, ie, Pikmin and Captain Toad. Smash and MK have games that try to emulate their experiences but usually end up failing. Basically the two genre's that they don't have offerings for at the moment, at least the new ones, are FPS (newest COD) and sandbox (GTA, Second Son/Sunset Overdrive).
Just because you choose to ignore much of the other offerings on the console doesn't make it only a Mario and Zelda console. By that theory, if the only games that interest you are FPS games, then PS4 and X1 are just COD and Destiny consoles. They have pushed sales for both of them more than almost every other game released on either...
The audience for NIntendo will happily pick up their consoles to play their games, especially since they are diversifying more now, so there is no reason for them to try to go software only, at least while they are still profitable.