| S.T.A.G.E. said: If Nintendo creates competitive hardware, they'll pique the attention of third parties. That will help core gamers who want to stick with Nintendo not have to look anywhere else for their third party fix. |
I'm not sure if that will ever happen.
Nintendo has a history of releasing home consoles at an affordable price around $250 or less (until Wii U). Until Nintendo can develop one that will have specs as nearly as powerful as Sony and Microsoft's within those parameters (Sony and Microsoft's have a price tag of 400$ or more the past two gen and don't mind selling at loss) we will never see a Nintendo home console that is competitive in specs as the competition. If Sony and Microsoft continues to make and sell their home consoles like they have for the past two gen, then Nintendo will have to change their traditional ways and follow Sony and Microsoft to have a console with competitive specs.
Nintendo should really team up with an electronics company like they did with Sony before to get a console with good specs and pricing if they want to stay competitive. But after the fallout between Sony and Nintendo and the competition it created, I don't blame them from stopping. Plus they managed to still sell their handhelds better than the competition with weaker specs and had their last console sell very well and generate massive profits. But maybe if they get pushed further away from getting powerful specs and less ideas to innovate with weaker devices, they might find another company to merge with before thinking of being handheld only or even third party.
