The financials behind Nintendo going 3rd party

[zorg1000]

Ka-pi96 said:

zorg1000 said:

Teeqoz said:

When/if Nintendo is in a dire situation like SEGA was, it's already to late.

Yes but the point is that Nintendo is in nowhere close to that situation, there is a pretty large middle ground between Sega in 2000 and Nintendo in 2015, like I said u don't just bail out on a market that has historically been very, very profitable for u with no guarantee that it will benefit u. Nintendo posted 3 years of losses because of making very large mistakes, if they fix those mistakes yet still are posting losses than maybe u have a point but as of now there is no reason for Nintendo to go 3rd party.

I agree. They should give home consoles at least 1 more try before they go 3rd party. The Wii U isn't particularly successful, but maybe their 9th gen console can be.

I really think Nintendo will go with a unified platform so that software sales aren't tied to a small userbase. Let's say the console sells 10-20 million and the handheld 40-80 million, that's a combined 50-100 million install base to sell to instead of 2 individual smaller markets to sell to.