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If I was the HNIC over at Nintendo I would be taking the company straight into third party development for home consoles.

I'd be very happy with the way we have a hold on the handheld market but with little to any reason for our handheld audience to run out and buy one of our home consoles due to a lack of integration between the two and the fact that 3 out of the last four console cycles we have finished behind one or more of the other industry leaders and that we are having a hard time securing third party licensing I'd have to nix the console aspect of our business.

I would watch our company's stock rise as we shift costs towards focused game development and away from console manufacturing which would be much more cost effective at this point. In just a few years time after releasing brand new versions of some of our most popular franchises on the two industry leading console developers and in the PC gaming space Nintendo would rival EA and Activision as one of the largest game development companies in the world. All while retaining top dog status (and profitability) in the dedicated gaming handheld market as well.

It's win/win. Nintendo's shareholders are happy and gamers are happy.