Nintendo is what it is cause its an integrated hardware + software company therefore it would be bad news for the company to go software only (look at sega) ...From a consumer perspective again i have to say bad news since the other companies seem to just want to copy one another and charge 500/600 $ just for the hardware(might as well get a good PC ). God forbid the day we would have no choice but to buy the same thing, I like a variety of different choices and absolutely hate monopolies. So to answer the question yes that would be bad.