The financials behind Nintendo going 3rd party

[Teeqoz]

ihatefatkatz said:

Teeqoz said:

I don't think Nintendo fans would just stop being loyal to Nintendo because they went multiplat.

Frankly, I see no possible way this could hurt their HH business more than them making mobile games is. Actually I'd argue that in the same way they wanna make mobile games to attract people to their other gaming devices, this could massively expand their audience, and attract people to their future handhelds.

But wouldn't it be better to reallocate those resource into making more content for their handheld? 3DS isn't teeming with games at the moment and chugging out games in a frequent maner will be harder as the future handheld games will be demand more time with the stronger hardware.

Hypothetically speaking, if home console market isn't viable for them anymore, dedicating their development resources into the handheld what be a better move than developing content for Sony and Microsoft consoles.

Take Mario Kart. One of Nintendo's huge sellers. They already make one Mario Kart for their handhelds, if they then make one mulitplat Mario Kart they would get huge sales from both their HHs and the multiplat release. So instead of delegating the home console Mario Kart team to make another smaller than Mario Kart game, they make one multiplat Mario Kart.

10 million HH Mario Kart + 10 million (at least) multiplat Mario Kart > 10 million HH Mario Kart + 2 million HH smaller game.