Regarding the whole home console market/ 3rd party problem, They need to buy either Ubisoft or EA. As simple as that.
What you hate EA and think they are the incarnation of the devil? The fact is that Fifa is key for mainstream access to the market in Europe and Madden and other sports games (NHL for Canada) are key to Nort-America. This will also provide a flow of "mature" IPs. They need to create a domino effect which by having what mainstream gamers wanna buy + their own great Nintendo IP they attract the rest of the third party publishers (the take over also acting as a credible commitment of Nintendo to other kind of content compared with what they traditionally do). With this, they could seriously undermine the position of Microsoft and compete directly against Sony.
Nintendo has ton of money and a smart release of games on smartphones can literally bring billions to the firm to reduce the risks of the take-over. After this they just need smart planning of releases: on smartphone= simple and cheapest version, portable= best quality and value for money portable version of the game with high end graphics and home console = ultimate version for "hardcore gamerz".
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