| Richard_Feynman said: They ALREADY get so little 3rd party support. You want it to be next to nothing ? |
In a hypothetical hybrid console/handheld scenario though, having lower third party may actually be what makes the business model work ... because Nintendo will likely sell less hardware overall, but the need for third parties lessens as they'll be able to supply more consistent software now that their dev teams aren't split between two.
And if that's the case, then having Nintendo control 70+% of the software sales on such a platform (assuming a usberbase of lets say 80-85 million LTD) would be more ideal for them.
Besides no one really is going to buy a PS4-level Nintendo console in 2017 (except the shrinking group of Nintendo die hards) ... by then the PS4 and XB1 will have sold through likely 90-100 million units. Nintendo would have to come up with a machine comparable to whatever the PS5 is supposed to be and I think they have no interest in making a game machine that would require such massive budgets.
