Soundwave said:
I agree but probably not for the reasons the author thinks.
Nintendo is finished with the mainstream home console market IMO.
They have mismanaged themselves into a corner and are no longer relevant to the mainstream console player. As such, outreach to third parties is futile at this point. No third party takes them seriously for consoles, not even the Japanese companies that work with them, for example Bandai-Namco won't even give the Wii U the new Tekken game even though they collaborate with Nintendo.
Nintendo allowed Sony and MS to gain too much traction in the market and cement themselves in place and between the two third parties have all they want. There is no room for Nintendo anymore and engaging now in a "war" for third party support versus the entrenched Sony and MS would just lead to Nintendo getting (predicably) routed.
Their next home system IMO will basically just be a way to play their handheld library on the TV and will kind of absolve Nintendo of the pressure of competing in the home market. It'll just be like an accessory, if it sells great, if it doesn't, well they can still make some money off the handheld variants. They won't need third party devs for that.
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People said this exact thing when the GameCube flopped. We all know what happened after that.
