| Skidmore said: Nintendo going third would really increase their financial performance on short term, but they will be totally limited by the current console generation. Nintendo is good in creating inovation, limiting them anyway woud do no good for us. |
Nothing Nintendo has done the last 2 generations would have been limited by being 3rd party. They could just have easily created peripherals for the X360/PS3 or X1/PS4 rather then building a less powerful machine that had the peripherals tied to it.
The other reasons really are poor.
Hardware lasts - I get what you are saying, but the last generation the Wii died and bascally the industry abandoned the platform. So the hardware lasted, but the industry moved on. Same thing happening with the Wii U. It will be lucky to have a 5 year lifespan.
Innovation - They all bring innovation, Nintendo just tries to lock you in to thier underpowered console to get it when the innovation has nothing to do with the console itself.
They squeeze every penny out of your wallet by building weak hardware (comparitivly) to play Nintendo and mostly only Nintendo software.
Backwards compatibility is a recent competitive move by Nintendo that hasnt panned out.
Item 5 is speculation. Of course they need to execute on going 3rd party. Doesnt mean they cant and since everyone (in Nintendo forums) believe Nintendo was far better at execution the Sega ever was then they should be able to do it.
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
