| Khuutra said: Not only would they be sacrificing profits from hardware itself, not only would they be giving up the royalties that they get from third partiesp ublishing on their hardware, they would also be paying royalties to whatever hardware manufacturers they published their titles on. The fact that they would need to pay royalties on every single one of their 20 Million sellers in the console and handheld space makes this whole discussion absurd. If any other company could move as many 10 million games as Nintendo does on a single system, they would be justified in making their own hardware if only so they wouldn't need to pay royalties to other companies. |
Paying the royalties would hurt, but that could be off set by increased over-all sales. And if any company could force a console maker to reduce, if not flat out ignore them it would be the owner of Mario, or Pokemon. Both in one gives amazing leverage. Of course the level of sales needed would border on absurd, but their series have delivered that in spades this generation. Still I can't counter much of what you say because really I don't think it would work out as well as their current set-up.
@Haxxily
Look up the Apple Pippin I believe it was called. They tried dedicated consoles before. It didn't really work out well in the end.
