The financials behind Nintendo going 3rd party

[kristianity77]

rolltide101x said:

kristianity77 said:
The simple fact is, is that if Nintendo started to put their games on to the other two consoles, they would sell millions more copies of every game they put out. Take Mario Kart for instance, sold over 4 million on the Wii U. The current install base of over 30 million PS4s and Xbox, youd be looking at what, 5 million sales surely? Even more?

Nintendo seems to think they have another Wii in them. But they do not. But in all honesty they would be fine with 30ish million consoles

I think at some point they will go third party.  Unless they decide to compete hardware wise with Sony and MS (which would make the platform have more 3rd party titles on) they will just fade into obscurity at least where home consoles are concerned.  Handhelds is a different kettle of fish however.  

So for me they either go two ways:

They put all of their efforts into the handheld market and pull out of consoles altogether 

They keep the handheld market as it is and develop console games for other hardware.  

I don't want them to become another Sega, but Nintendo are rapidly becoming archaic in their approach to everything.