The next Nintendo "hardware" if it is indeed a fusion platform (ala iPhone - iPad) will probably finally get OK third party support.
Japanese support like Monster Hunter, Dragon Quest, Bravely Default/Final Fantasy spin-offs/Youkai Watch will likely continue there. But now you can play these games on the TV if its a shared ecosystem.
And for Western third parties, if Nintendo uses say ARM + Qualcomm because of the needs of having to make a chip for a mobile and home platform, that could spur decent support from them too.
It would be one place to support "Nintendo" rather than in the past, the Nintendo handhelds had the userbase Western devs liked, but the consoles had the better specs/tie-ratio that Western devs wanted, so it watered down the Western third party support for both I think.
If you give Western devs one unified platform that checks off their "Nintendo box" from their "todo list" I think that will be appealing to some devs at least. Maybe EA will return. I wouldn't mind being able to play a PS3/360 caliber game of NHL 16 or Madden NFL 16 or FIFA 16 on the go.
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