Nintendo's revenue will decrease if it goes third party.

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_crazy_man_ said:

Most likely.

They'd get a smaller cut of software sales and all hardware sales going poof.

They'd need a drastic increase in software sales to offset that loss.

They would probably see a drastic increase in software if they went multiplatform. They would have 10 million PS4 customers, 5 million Xb one customers, hundreds of millions of smartphone customers and a hundred million or so PC customers. They could even usher in an era of higher priced smartphone games bringing smartphone games out of the <$5 mire.

What was hardware revenue for Nintendo?

But I see no point in Nintendo going softwqare only in handheld. They still seel good numbers in the handheld market, and being exclusive in handhelds but multiplatform in home console/PC means they can potentially leverage multiplatform content to attract more handheld hardware sales.

Nintendo made ~$1 billion in Wii U hardware revenue in 2013. They could probably make that up with expanded software sales. But I doubt they could make up the loss in revenue (>$2 billion) from 3DS.