The financials behind Nintendo going 3rd party

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the_dengle said:

Sure, when you look at the worst-selling Nintendo console ever it seems like going third party might be slightly more profitable for them. Now tell me Mario Kart Wii would have sold ten million more copies as a PS3/360 game.

You also forgot to factor in the increased costs of developing on two or more platforms at once.

Agree 100%.

Nintendo even gets to shave training budgets compared to competitors by making their own hardware; most other companies have to react to what the console manufacturers do. Nintendo's internal dev teams know years in advance. They probably even had input on them.

It's not just the explicit costs keeping Nintendo in the console biz.