Would you mind if Nintendo went third-party?

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Aeolus451 said:

bunchanumbers said:
Yes I would mind. It would be the worst thing to happen to gaming since the collapse of 1983. We'd be stuck with the twins and that would be a disaster. Look at what they are doing now. Do you want that to be the future of gaming? The instant that Nintendo goes 3rd party, the downfall of gaming will be happening a few years later.

And the worst part is that Sony and MS won't care. They'll just go back to their TVs or photo cells or OSes and act like the collapse of gaming was no big deal. The real victims are the gamers. I can't believe that people are wishing for the downfall of the hobby they supposedly love.

 

No one is talking about going back in time and killing nintendo. If nintendo goes third party, their games will still be around and the gaming market will be just fine.

 

The problem is not all their games would be around. 

Being a hardware maker forces you to produce a wider variety of games than you would otherwise. 

If they become a third party, it'll just be the big IPs like Mario Kart, Mario, Pokemon, Animal Crossing, Zelda, that will get made over and over and over again, because as a third party they don't have any responsibility to build the overall platform, just to sell as many games as possible. 

Which is fine if you like those IP, but it would suck for those of us who like things like Kid Icarus, Star Fox, Xenoblade, Punch-Out!, F-Zero, as a lot of those types of games would get phased out. 

Look at Sega ... all they make is Sonic + Yakuza and a few other IP and nothing else. Compare that to what they used to make when they were a console maker. 

If they have to go third party I'd rather they just choose one of Microsoft or Sony to align with and become a partner with, rather than just becoming a generic third party publisher.