If you were President of Nintendo, what would you do?

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Mummelmann said:

Soundwave said:
Third parties honestly don't make that much money.

Rockstar which has the biggest third party IP is about a $1.5 billion company ... Nintendo is a $18-20 billion company in assets ... they would be nowhere near as large if they were just a third party developer, even if they were the biggest one.

Yeah, I don't understand where people get this notion that Nintendo would be better off solely as a 3rd party developer, it's ridiculous.

I added all the sales for the 100 top selling games of 2013 by publisher (data from vgchartz), here are the results:

Nintendo:   43,517,699    (23 games)

Take-Two Interactive:   37,109,991    (8 games)

Electronic Arts:   27,755,029   (17 games)

Activision:   26,275,410   (10 games)

Ubisoft:   14,606,868   (9 games)

Sony Computer Entertainment:   10,804,710   (6 games)

Microsoft Game Studios:   8,531,017   (5 games)

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment:   7,126, 639   (7 games)

Square Enix:   5,643,427   (4 games)

Capcom:   3,998,650   (2 games)

Deep Silver:   2,052,994   (2 games)

Bethesda Softworks:   1,838,369   (2 games)

Disney:   1,821,103   (2 games)

GungHo:   1,158,389   (1 game)

Konami Digital Entertainment:   1,075,195   (1 game)

Namco Bandai:   914,870   (1 game)

 

Nintendo, even on a year with sales well below their expectations, is still by far the largest game publisher. But, this doesn't stop a bunch of clowns all over the Internet from trying to tell Nintendo how they should run their business.