Wii sports was really for everyone and a absolut great innovative game!

this grandma xD

With third console sales war loss, Microsoft are not cut out to compete in console sales wars. They should stick to software and rake in the profits and bring Gears of War and Halo games to PC and Play Station consoles.

Indeed Wii Sports was a great game. Why Nintendo has the Switch not a title like this yet.

It would be a smart move and probably win them some love in the gaming community. They could just make a deal where they still get to make Pachinko machines based on the IPs, while the buyer makes the games. It would also keep those franchises fresh in people's minds, which would keep interest up in playing those themed machines.

Yeah, it's not like any of those game companies are making Pachinko machines, so that should be a pretty easy deal to set up. Almost all their money comes from Pachinko nowadays, so I feel like it's a win-win for everyone. Konami makes money from selling the IPs and the continuing Pachinko business, but don't have to make games to make those Pachinko IPs something that Pachinko players would care about. The IPs stay strong from other companies making games with them. And then those companies make money from making good games, and gamers get good games from those IP.

We already have too many damn Californians coming to Austin, Texas.  Need to find another dumping ground for them.

"Nintendo should abandon one of the fastest selling systems in history and go third party", LMAO.

That would be suicide for them, the market cannot support three similar systems, it never has. Going head-to-head with PS5 would be the Gamecube all over again. Nintendo succeed when they carve out their own niche instead of trying to be just be another Playstation/Xbox.

I'd actually be curious if the answer changes if Sony or Microsoft drop off. If there was only a Playstation or only an Xbox, could Nintendo try a power approach again? 

I adore my Switch and liked my Wii U (got plenty of use from it), so I have no problem with the current status beyond third party behavior. 

If Xbox dropped out of the race maybe, but I think at this point that the blue ocean mentality is so ingrained in Nintendo's culture and the hybrid concept has worked so well for them that even with only Playstation to compete against they'd still avoid making a powerful standard console.

Atari - whatever company that controls you now just stop. Your system will sell less than the Ouya.