As you may have noticed from my countless posts in other threads: I'm absolutely terrified by what Nintendo's new concept could turn into. But what should Nintendo have done instead? As many people seem to like their new concept (for whatever reason) I'd like to share my idea and would like to know what you all think about it.

In my opinion Nintendo should have given up hardware creation. No, they shouldn't produce games for the Playstation/Xbox. No, not for mobile devices either. The best thing would probably be to create a PC platform like Steam, UPlay or Origin. Think about it. Pretty much everybody has a PC, which would allow them to have access to a wider audience. And the typical Nintendo games aren't in need of an insane graphic card either. Many people do not buy Nintendo games because they are on consoles which they don't want to spend 200-300$ on. But if they'd create this free PC platform the sales of their games would probably increase a lot.

This new service wouldn't have to compete against any other platform as you can get Steam and all the other Steam-styled platforms as well without paying anything.

Now, there is the problem about the lack of games. They'd need to get quite a lot of games on the platform to make it stay relevant. To get this flow of games they should buy some other developers and increase the number of developers in the EAD team. The games which would get a lot of advertisement and hype would be the new games or games made by Third Parties which they paid for (games like Hyrule Warriors or Bayonetta 2). To get a consistent amount of games each week they would have to make several teams which port older games (mainly 6th to 8th generation, I'm tired of seeing the old Super Mario Bros. getting re-released again and again) and try to hire a company to port smaller mobile games as well (even though I dislike them). Maybe they could even attract some developers like Sega or Capcom to make games for it as well.

Any suggestions to further improve this idea? Do you like my idea or do you dislike it? Is it realistic? I'd love to hear your opinion on all of this.

What's the reasoning behind releasing the titles on PC and not on PS4/XBO? There's really no reason to release your titles on the PC and not the consoles too.... apart from a vocal minority who don't want there beloved franchises tarnished by hitlers own consoles the ps4 and xbo.

the question is does anybody want a platform like that (if thats what you mean)...for now the answer is obviously no.

i think what nintendo is doing right now, stealthy as a ninja, is to actually bring smartphones, tablets games to their platforms and this is only step 1.

They'd have to give some of their revenue made off of these games to Sony and Microsoft. And pretty much everybody who has a PS4 and XBox One would have access to this new platform as well.

Why limit to PC when you can play on PC, tablets and smartphones?

Pretty sure Hitler would never own an Xbox. And he's definitely a Wii guy. He likes his Japanese boxes in white and preferably with an Italian mascot to play with.

It would be bad for them. Nintendo sells in japan and PC is still not a big market in Japan. Its true that its growing, but PC is niche there. Its why Japanese developers had hesitated joining PC for so long.

But the Wii U has an audience of 9-10m owners. The PC service would certainly open up a bigger userbase than before, which would obviously help sales as well. And as I stated in my post, most Nintendo games have a low graphical level. I don't have a dedicated gaming PC and yet my PC can still run most of the games from 2013 and 2014.

I agree. They're clearly following Sony's Vita strategy. I just hope the execution is better.

I just hope this points towards a unified eco system for their home and portable platforms.

Lol no, thats a terrible business descision. What they have announced is beyond the best I could have expected of them... and yet I expect more.