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Conina on 19 May 2013
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OnlyOptional said:

I remember some Nintendo representatives said if Nintendo's hardware goes down, they are taking their software with them.

Going down with the ship...
Even if it was a shareholder or investor decision it would still happen because in Japan they give most of the say to the founding family, which is Mr Yamauchi.

Don't kid yourself, Hiroshi Yamauchi only holds 10% of Nintendo.

Here ist the actual share distribution:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/stock/information/index.html

Will the 43% foreign institutions/individuals or the 24% Japanese financial institutions "go down with the ship" in the name of misguided honor and sentimental values?

As long as Nintendo stays in the hardware business they should stick to the exclusivity of their franchises... to go multiplatform with their IPs would hurt their hardware sales a lot!

But if they decide to leave the hardware business in a few (or more years) due to the hard competition they can't keep up, restructuring of their company to software only would be a viable option. The strength of Nintendo is the software (super fun games), not the hardware. The games would be great on any platform.

Pride is a bad business advisor.