Would Nintendo be more profitable as a third party publisher?

[KBG29]

anonymunchy said:

KBG29 said:
I think the Wii proved that if Nintendo has a big enough platform their game sales will scale accordingly. So, if they opened their games up to the entire 250M large user base of the console world, and the Billion plus mobile market, they could rake in massive amounts of cash. Well beyond anything they have ever done in the past.

JoeTheBro said:
Every time a game sells on the Wii U or 3DS, Nintendo makes money. I can't divulge the specific amount, but it's a considerable fee. If Nintendo went third party they'd lose that huge source of income. All of their games would have to sell much much better to offset the loss of these fees.

On top of that, Nintendo also makes money on the hardware. The returns can be good on the systems in later years but they make a killing on accessories. The wii remote does not cost even close to $40 to make.

 

 

 

 

I was going to write my own reply but JoeTheBro already covers everything I wanted to say so here's his post again.

Constantly selling 20 - 30M units of games would be much more profitable than 6M one gen, 25M the next, and 4M the next. We are talking about games that sell better than GTA and COD on much lower budgets. Retro Marios, 3D Marios, Mario Kart, Pokemon, all these titles could sell 20M plus, may even see 30M or more in some cases. Those kind of sales would outweight the difference between 1st and 3rd party royalties.