| Metallicube said: Nintendo puts the effort into their games in order to sell their hardware, and vice versa. If the need to make quality games in order to push their hardware is gone, I feel the game quality would suffer immensely, as a large part of the incentive is gone. Furthermore, hardware brings in a lot more profit than a$50-$60 game. The entirity of Nintendo's survival as a company hinging completly on something as small as video game software would be disasterous for them. They would implode as a company, unless they underwent a MAJOR downsizing. Also, I don't get why Nintendo hardware gets this bad stigma.. It's not only far cheaper (in price, NOT in quality), but it's far more durable (doesn't break on you 33% of the time like the PS2 or old Xbox 360), interface is more seemless, and comes with free online. Also, unlike the Wii, Nintendo how has hardware that is at least "good enough" in terms of horsepower. Just what the hell do people feel is wrong with their hardware? Nintendo is not going third party people. EVER. Best to make peace with this fact now rather than later. Honestly, Sony is far more likely to go third party than Nintendo. |
If Nintendo relied on software to make them money the quality would remain high or they'd lose their sole source of income. Why would no longer making hardware (done by a completely unrelated divsion) lead to EAD just giving up and deciding to release trash. That's illogical.
People have rewritten history so extensively making out like the Dreamcast was some gaming Mecca. Sega's output since going third party is better and they've been able to invest heavily in new popular devs. I think it says a lot that Sega were in a financial position to purchase Atlus but Nintendo, despite so desperately needing more games for their own system, weren't.
The hardware is unappealing to the market. I personally don't mind it and it's good that you like it too, but that doesn't help Nintendo's bottom line. There are plenty of threads on what is wrong with the Wii U.
Nintendo is a publicly owned company and have a legal obligation to be profitable. If Nintendo's performance in the console space doesn't improve in the next five years they will go third party.
