That would be like saying "Target is holding consumers hostage by not selling their goods in a Walmart store". Or "Apple are holding their apps hostage......" etc etc. See they ARE NINTENDOS intellectual property, so there is no argument here.

Fans want them to keep making hardware and people who might buy 1 or 2 Nintendo games want them to go third party.

"Buy Mario Kart 9 and you get to drive as Ratchet in four tracks designed only for the PS5"

"Buy Mario Kart 9 and you get to drive as Master Chief in four tracks designed only for XB2"

"Buy Mario Kart 9 on IOS and you get to play as all the Angry Birds"


........that last one was tough to write...ugh

If I try to fly off my roof, why would people say i would get hurt? how would anyone know that unless the situation occured!

You've been here for TWO years, and only now noticing that? :P

It's sad to see that fusioncode either didn't see this wonderful reply, or he chose to ignore it

Going third party will harm Nintendo. Nintendo has always been a company that does things different then everybody else in the industry. Sometimes this puts Nintendo on top and other times they are on the bottom but I have rarely seen Nintendo go head-to-head and try to beat their competition by pumping more money, production time and better graphics into their games. Here are my reasons why I think going 3rd party will hurt Nintendo:

1) If Nintendo goes third party they will now have to compete with companies like Bungie, Naughty Dog, 343 Studios.  Nintendo will also lose it's home-turf advantage since the gamers buying PS5/Xtwo are going to be buying those consoles primarily for Hi-Def graphics and cinematic open worlds. Nobody pays $500 for a power-house console with the primary intention to play games like Captain Toad and Nintendo will be forced to become more like the other companies.

2) Nintendo's core audience will be fragmented. Even though the Wii U has only sold 8 million units, they can take comfort in knowing that virtually any Mario/Zelda/DK/Yoshi game they release will become million sellers. Games like Mario Kart and Smash Bros will easily sell 3-4 million copies even with an 8 million console install base. Nintendo has a very loyal core fanbase and knows how to make the perfect game for these fans. If Nintendo goes third party, Nintendo will no longer be making games for Nintendo fans but rather Sony and Microsoft fans and it will be unclear how many Wii U owners will transition to Sony and MS since many Nintendo fans (including myself) could care less about super high-end graphics.

3) It will take away from the "special experience" of playing a Nintendo game. Part of what makes Nintendo such a deeply loved and respected company is that their software has only ever been available on a special hardware with a special controller, etc... The Nintendo console is part of the Nintendo experience. Playing a Nintendo game on a PC or an Xbox would be like eating a fancy steak dinner in a crowded cafeteria: something of the experience would be lost.

4) Nintendo will have to pay licensing fees to Sony and Microsoft and will not be able to earn money from licensing fees. I can't put numbers to this but this has to be considered when factoring how much profit they would earn making third party games.

5) Look at Sega. I feel that this is the most powerful incentive for Nintendo never to go 3rd party. What makes Mario and Zelda so popular is that Nintendo preserves the quality of these IP's through amazing games. There was a time when Sonic was in the same class as Mario. Going third party has been catastrophic for Sega and I cannot see a good case as to why it would be any different if Nintendo went 3rd party.

This post is funny because the WiiU has been selling at a profit for months, and the Xbox One is a huge money sink, especially after the price cut.

I guess success isn't success if you have less units sold than the competition. Who cares about profits, when there's numbers to catch up to?

TBH i like the nintendo hardware more then sony's and xbox hardware, i like nintendo hardware because they have the right philosophy, Thats a big reason nintendo shouldnt go third party because they are the original ones, the others just spout out DLC and microstransactions and so on for every single game, ik not the consoles themself do it, but nintendo is against the idea of rip-off DLC like what call of duty does and many more titles, see they already did a remaster on the last of us, wich is only 1 year old, oh and the biggest factor is probably that nintendo are the only ones who have backwards compability of the next gen, and they have the cheapest (maybe not the most powerful) hardware. Still nintendo were one of the big original hardware developers, i dont wanna see them go away any time soon, and i dont think they will.My body is ready!

Looking at Rayman Legends, Sonic Allstar Racing Transformed etc. sales and asking, why should Nintendo go third party?
PS4One users seem to just not buy that kind of games, PS360 owners bought less and less of them.

So the only way Nintendo would be successful as third party is taking their own customers with em.

I'd actually bet that Ucharted would sell better on X1 than Mario.

i can tell you the reason = SEGA

Look what happened to SEGA and tell me how it benefited the industry and gamers in any way? No sonic game anymore developed by sega themselves, no shenmue, no shinobi, no crazy taxi, no space channel, no more crazy new IPs and even virtua fighter we havent seen anything by them since VF5.

What significant new game or frenchises came out from sega since they went out from console manufacturing? The only new good IPs they made were valkyria chronicles, yakuza series and hatsune miku which is not a game franchise itself.

Now for them its more comfortable to make some stupid pachinko games or sega clubs instead investing into videogames.

As much as i dont see my self owning a wiiu yet i still dont see the point how would it benefit me as gamer if nintendo would go out from making hardware, games like bayonetta 2 wouldnt have happened if it woulnd be for nintendo wanting to sell consoles.