Why Nintendo should stay first party

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kristianity77 said:
At some point, I think Nintendo will reach a cross road. Maybe not in the handheld market but certainly the console market. They will have to make a decision on whether to drop out and concentrate on hand helds or whether they take their games over to other platforms.

Unless of course, they can get by on being in 3rd place and still turn over a profit. In that case they can carry on going and just catering for the 10-20 million people who are willing to shell out the money for a console purely to just play Nintendo games and nothing else.

As long as they are profiting it's not much of an issue I don't think. Their business model seems to work. The business models of many third parties are the really risky ones. If Sony or MS do pull out they will likely go out of business over night. Them not using proper business practices are the issue here, that and exorbitant spending on bug ridden games, just hoping that their audience will again buy millions of them to ensure there is some profit to be made. That's one hell of a risky business model.