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Here's the rub:

3rd parties have really no incentive to make definitive editions of their games for Nintendo home consoles. They have to develop on weaker hardware and the best results they can expect is that the overall mix of sales favors a Nintendo platform slightly over PS or Xbox. There's very little to no recent evidence of a Nintendo home console really contributing much to a 3rd party game's sales. Why would that change now?

With sales of MK8, SSB, and other Nintendo 1st party games outpacing their GameCube counterparts, even as WiiU falls behind GC in hardware, never has it been more true that people buy Nintendo consoles for Nintendo games.

The best you can hope for is if NX can beast up on X1 and PS4 while Nintendo cuts their royalty/licensing rates. Then and only then will 3rd parties have real incentive to aggressively pursue the Nintendo home console platform. The alternative Nintendo fans seem ready embrace in the meantime: IP outsourcing/crossovers similar to Hyrule Warriors and Pokken Fighters



I predict NX launches in 2017 - not 2016