Would Nintendo survive if they went 3rd party?

[Bofferbrauer]

Ck1x said:

Bofferbrauer said:
Nintendo itself would survive just fine as a third party publisher.

However, since they wouldn't have to provide their consoles with games anymore, don't expect them to produce much else than Mario or Zelda titles anymore (plus Pokemon, Yokai Watch and maybe Splatoon and Fire Emblem) as then they will have to make sure their games make a steady profit. Which would already be risky (for their investors, probably not so much for Nintendo themselves) with Kirby, Donkey Kong or Paper Mario and would only be released once in a long while. Metroid, Star Fox, F-Zero, Chibi Robo, Pikmin or any new IP to name just a few? Wouldn't be worth the trouble anymore, so don't expect any of these games to come out anymore if Nintendo goes third party.

Also, the quality might suffer as they wouldn't need to be pitch perfect anymore to make their consoles really sell.

And what you have layed out here would be a very sad Nintendo! Let's be real, Fire Emblem is a decent sized franchise because it's on Nintendo platforms. Nobody on Playstation or Xbox is checking for such a Japanese strategy RPG. They don't even want Final Fantasy to play like an RPG, everything has to resemble an open world action adventure game now.

Fire Emblem might survive pretty well in Japan, that's why I put a maybe there. I wouldn't bet on western releases anymore too if Nintendo would go third party, though.

And the trend for those overly actionyzed RPGs is why I play older RPGs (and I mean really older RPGs, mostly stuff from the 90's on PC) but none of them. We had that trend before in strategy games: Before Command & Conquer and Warcraft, almost all strategy tiltes where turn based. Good luck finding any such games anymore which aren't 4X titles. Too bad since turn-based wargames where and still are my favorite genre, but I'm stuck with Panzer General and Battle Isle for all eternity it seems