Would Nintendo survive if they went 3rd party?

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Ka-pi96 said:

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They would be fine, but I don't know if they would be able to take risks with games like Splatoon and Bayonetta 2.

I don't see why they wouldn't do stuff like Splatoon. Seemed like it was relatively cheap to produce and wouldn't have needed many sales to be profitable. I really doubt they'd just stop making new IPs if they went 3rd party.

Bayonetta however.... yeah, probably wouldn't happen anymore. I'd assume that was much more to sell their system rather than to profit on the software, with no system to sell buying exclusivity of 3rd party games would just be kinda pointless.

Splatoon might have been cheap to produce, but it still is more ambitious than other new IPs Nintendo has made over the years, like Pushmo for example.