Nintendo should exit console making and create a channel instead!

[Soundwave]

Even if Nintendo wanted to get out of making hardware themselves, why forfeit all their hardware rights and claim to third party licensing fees.

If I were Nintendo I'd go to Google, Sony, Microsoft, Disney (yup, you heard that right), and Apple and have them sit down and say straight up, we'll make consoles/phones/tablets in conjunction with *one* of you exclusively, but this is the deal:

- We get control/design input on all co-branded gaming platforms.
- We receive a hardware royalty per hardware sale (so to integrate a "Nintendo" platform into say your cell phone or tablet, you have to pay Nintendo $40-$50 a unit as a hardware licensing fee)
- We receive at least 50% of all third party royalty revenue from any Nintendo co-branded devices.
- Nintendo's retains all profit to their own games.
- Company partnering with Nintendo is forbidden from attempting any type of take over of Nintendo or purchase of Nintendo stock.

Watch these mega-corps get into a bidding war for Nintendo, they could easily score themselves a deal where they maintain a large degree of control over hardware designs and profit and still get a fat cut of third party licensing fees.