Soundwave on 07 April 2015
I think being a plain jane/vanilla third party would be the worst result for Nintendo.
I'd rather have a partnership with MS over that, I think MS is going to scale back their involvement in hardware in the next few years anyway ... that was a Steve Ballmer push primarily, with him gone, I think Nadella will start to trim the fat.
Maybe that will come together for them. If not, then it's NX or bust.
