| Ruler said: Its not just Sega (jointventure with Sammy) look also at SNK (bought by chinese), Atari (bought by french), NEC/Hudson (bought by Konami). Everyone who gave up hardware will fall lower and lower history has proven. Do you think Sony and MS would keep making and publishing games if they would stop making hardware? They would sell off their studios and completley leave gaming the way NEC did. Ounce Nintendo would go third party you wouldnt see franchises and games being published and funded by them like Bayonetta, Fire Emblem or Xenoblade. They would be pretty worse than they are now with new IPs. More Amiibos, Remasters etc. |
Remember when people said, "the strongest hardware will never win a generation," simply because it hadn't happened before? I remember that very well, because I thought it was a bad conclusion with very little in the way of logic to back it up and I often argued that it was nonsense.
In this case, Nintendo is a much different animal than most of the examples you mentioned. The position and situation they are in now is barely comparable. Especially Sony and Microsoft.
As far as games go, we probably would not see projects like Bayonetta or W101. However, Fire Emblem and Xenoblade are owned by Nintendo and it's quite possible they would continue.
