Nintendo should exit console making and create a channel instead!

[DanneSandin]

Soundwave said:

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.

This is actually quite good points, and I agree that Nintendo should do this next gen - with their handhelds. But that all depends on how well 3DS will end up being. RIght now it's doing pretty damn good. And if Nintendo can sell 100m hand helds they're safe and don't need other companies to make their hardware.