Why do people think that Nintendo could go or should go third-party?

[zippy]

Armour1 said:

zippy said:
First and foremost, selling over 65 million units of hardware in an underperforming gen is nothing to be sniffed at.
Secondly, they are now starting a mobile venture in which their IP will reach an audience that dwarfs that of console users.
Thirdly, Im sure that if it benefited Nintendo to give up hardware and go software only they would have done so by now. Having millions of games selling on their own hardware with 100% of the profits landing in the bank, is obviously the best thing for them. As seen this gen, even small install bases like Wii U still has insane software attach rates and I dont see it changing any time soon.

 

Sure if corporations were not ran by stubborn pridefull often stupid arrogant people, but they are.  See how Kodak fared.  

100 year old and went bankrupt in a blink of an eye almost.  

Then ther is IBM that abandonded what made them them dropped PCs long before anyone else and looked to the future, and is mega succesfull still around doing billions upon billions of business.   

Nintendo arent as dumb as many here like to believe, hence the reason they are branching out into mobile. They can use their popular IP to reach millions upon millions of mobile device users (Pokemon go is going to be huge), whilst also having an audience for dedicated gaming devices, in which their is always going to be that hardcore crowd. Add this to giving more freedom of their IP to other venture such as the Mario movie, theme parks, tv shows, merchandise, toys to life (Amiibo is a huge success which has room to grow)etc actually suggests to me that Nintendo are in really good shape going forward.