Would you mind if Nintendo went third-party?

[Aeolus451]

bunchanumbers said:

Aeolus451 said:

bunchanumbers said:

Aeolus451 said:

Hmmm you have a point. That's on nintendo though. They don't really make many new IPs this gen that aren't related to one of their main IPs. Nintendo could just become a bigger publisher than any of the others and work with studios to bring their games to people but still develope their own games. Surely, if nintendo fans spoke out, nintendo would listen especially since they're purely a video game company. 

Yeah, that's why Sega made Phantasy Star 5, or made Bayo 2 and Shenmue 3 happen. Once they go 3rd party its over. Do you really think they care what a vocal minority of gamers want when they are 3rd party? Those vocal minority sales matter to Nintendo now because they also buy consoles, peripherals and other Nintendo games. Once Sega went 3rd party they were done. The exact same thing will happen to Nintendo. Becoming bigger like you say means they need bigger sales to support themselves. They won't get those sales from niche nintendo games.

Sega is kind of a bad example even though it's the only console maker to go 3rd party. They're bad with money. Nintendo on the other hand isn't. If nintendo went 3rd, what games get sequels or what gets released largely depends on the people who buy nintendo's games. Nintendo's loyal fans is it's only market amongst gamers and it's games reflect their tastes. If nintendo fans start to demand things then most likely nintendo will have no choice but to cave in.  At some point, someone has to say "this shit isn't acceptable" or "we want this game". Nintendo has never been in a position that it can just ignore it's fans because they are it's target consumers. 

 

That is doubtful. If Nintendo is a 3rd party publisher most likely, we'll end up not getting any of their fringe games anymore, because they just aren't gonna sell. You can say that Nintendo has no choice but to cave in, but most likely, like all 3rd party publishers, they'll instead focus on the franchises that do sell. Nintendo still has shareholders to appease after all. Or we'll see a couple of these games that may or may not be good, along with a warning from Nintendo saying that it needs to sell xxx millions if they want a sequel. Or even worse, a mega casual surge of their games on mobile and a complete abandonment of their fanbase.

Not only that their fanbase will most likely abandon them too. I don't know if you know this, but there is a certain pride in the Nintendo fanbase. Most of their fans will treat it as though Nintendo abandoned them. The reward for decades of loyalty is Nintendo telling them that the systems they bought are worthless and to go buy a PlayStation? They won't go after those games on other systems. Its why Wii U has some of the strongest attach rates. I'm hovering around 50 Wii U games. You wanna know how many games from Nintendo I'd buy if I had to get it on PlayStation? Maybe one. Maybe.

Did the 12 million Dreamcast owners buy millions of units of all Sega games on other systems after Sega shut down? No. They all went onto something else and Sega floundered. I should know. I was a diehard Sega fan from Genesis, Saturn, and Dreamcast days.

 

I'm getting a conflicted message from you on this. Are you a fan of nintendo because of it's games or it's consoles? Consoles are only a means to play the games. Why do think you would have less nintendo games to play if nintendo went 3rd party when most likely, not making hardware would free up all of the resources that go into it? Sega and Nintendo are not the same and I doubt that nintendo would follow their example in how they act as a publisher.