That lack of third party support is good for Nintendo

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While Nintendo may be posting losses and lowering expectations for now, the pinch they find themselves in has really upped their game. Pressure creates diamonds and they've been forced to up their game. They took a while to get HD under their belts, but now they make arguably the most visually appealing games on the market. The Wii U game pad was criminally under used, only used for inventory or being dicks before which are nice but not groundbreaking, and now we have games like Project Giant Robot, Project Guard, and Mario Party 10 in development that add new features using the game pad to play in ways no other game console could. The lack of third parties is also forcing Nintendo to up its size to develop its own titles and develop new IPs to cover the areas no longer provided by third parties. Nintendo has also become extremely aware of what their audience wants, as evidenced by E3, and probing people, listening to what they want.

The smartest thing Nintendo could do right now is to expand. No one is going to help them with their catalog of games. They can't just abandon the Wii U like everyone here likes to pretend they should do, and you don't magically develop a new system over night, let alone compete in power with the experts at sony or the coffers of microsoft on your first forray into the power systems since the Super NES.

People like to say Nintendo should buy this or that, but there are only a few things Nintendo really should buy. They should buy Capcom, because it offers a disproportionately large catalog of IPs that have name recognition, will sell regardless, complement Nintendo's current library, and could fit the couch co-op ideals of Nintendo. All of that comes with a fully functional studio that can go to work almost immediately on several games. Games that Nintendo sorely needs, and that become console exclusives.

Aside from Capcom, Nintendo should scour their company for the next generation of -the- guys, and naturally grow in size until all of these guys can be doing their own games. Nintendo needs to be at a size where they can pump out at least 12 large scale titles a year within their own studios, and then they won't have to worry about their third party support.

And for those of you saying it's not feasible to do because the Wii U is dead, these assets aren't just for the Wii U. It's an investment for the future. These things won't magically disappear when they move on from the Wii U. They need to be ready to promote their next system as well because they can't rely on third parties again until their systems, current or future, are proven successful.