Would you mind if Nintendo went third-party?

[zorg1000]

Teeqoz said:

zorg1000 said:

 

The thing is we have to take their handhelds into consideration because even if Nintendo were to stop making home consoles, than it would make more sense for them to give their handhelds 100% support instead of hurting their own hardware by also releasing games on competitors devices.

 

In this hypothetical scenario, sure, a lot of the projects and resources for games that wouldn't gain much from the vastly increased userbase of PS/xbox would just be shifted to the 3DS. However they would still stand to gain more by releasing a Mario Kart, a Smash Bros, a 3D Mario and a Zelda on PS/Xbox than shifting those resources to the 3DS (or their next handheld), because their handheld line gets an entry in those series anyways, and most likely whatever game the respective teams create for the handheld wouldn't sell as much as a main entry Mario Kart/Smash/Zelda/Mario on PS/Xbox.

To sum up, basically PS/Xbox would be hypothetically getting entries in the heavy hitters, but a lot of the smaller hitters would be shifted to their handhelds.

EDIT: That's what I think would happen if Nintendo were to ditch home consoles anyway.

 

Here's another thing that u need to consider, wouldn't having those big hitters on PS/XB potentially hurt the sales of their handheld counterparts? If u already own a PS/XB console and can get Smash Bros, Mario Kart, etc. on it than the likelihood of that person buying a device in order to play inferior versions of those games decreases.

Nintendo droughts would increase as well, they struggle to support Wii U & 3DS currently, what happens when they are developing multiplat titles on PS5/XB4/PC, mobile games/apps and try to give adequate support to their HD handheld as well? It won't be able to get enough support from Nintendo and it would then just be a matter of time before they had to bail on that market as well.