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Metallicube on 07 January 2014
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Purple said:
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.


If Nintendo's performance in the console space doesn't improve in the next five years, they will not go third party. Instead, they will do the same thing they did after their LAST hardware failure known as the Gamecube; they will be forced to go back to their arcade roots again and release another Wii-type console, and probably have another hit on their hands (no, the Wii U is NOT the next Wii, it's a successor to Wii in name only). Problem is lately they've become stubborn and insisted on regressing back to their niche style gamecube games with the Wii U. THAT is why the hardware is selling poorly. It has little to do with the hardware itself. At the end of the day, people buy consoles to play their GAMES, not to stare at the pretty glossy finish of the hardware or look at their purdy graphics.. The reason Nintendo hardware is suffering right now is because the game quality has been suffering. End of story.. And Nintendo has the power to fix that, if only they'd get their heads out of their asses and start doing it..

The bottom line is this, if it made business sense for Nintendo to go third party, they would have done it already. They are not stupid. There is obviously a very good reason they chose not to, and to continue to. And I would wager they NEVER will.