I suspect that certain Japanese third parties are actually strengthening ties, behind the scenes right now, with Nintendo. I think we'll see some more exclusives announced from Bandai Namco, Sega/Atlus, and Koei Tecmo, at least.
Why? Consider what each of these companies already has. Bandai Namco are the ones making Smash, and they're the ones behind Pokken Tournament. Sega had a big exclusive for Sonic titles, Atlus is the one making SMTxFE, and Sega seem to be fairly close to Nintendo anyway. Koei Tecmo made Hyrule Warriors and Fatal Frame V.
All three companies seem to be getting a lot of opportunities to work with Nintendo IP, they all seem to be more than happy to make the games (in some cases, it seems that they approached Nintendo about it), and I find it unlikely that Nintendo would let these publishers make games with their big IP without some deal requiring them to also make some other games for the system.
Beyond that, I think there's some chance that Nintendo could regain support from certain western publishers - mostly Warner/Disney/Ubisoft. And in theory, I could see Nintendo working with Activision/Treyarch to have some sort of FPS exclusive, although it's probably more pie-in-the-sky than anything else.
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