Would Nintendo survive if they went 3rd party?

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NightDragon83 said:

HomokHarcos said:
I think the decline in quality would go down, as currently Nintendo have to work really hard on their IPs to make sure their console does well- it depends on it.

Can't be much worse than the overall quality of their Wii U library... there's been some duds in between Mario U/3D World, Smash, Mario Kart and Splatoon... like Nintendo World, MP 10, Kirby, Yoshi and Mario Tennis Ultra Smash, to name a few.  No reason to think them going 3rd party would be any different in terms of quality, with a range of software from the core AAA Mario and Zelda games to the mediocre spinoffs.

If anything, going 3rd party would light a fire under Nintendo's ass, because now they'd be forced to make themselves stand out among a sea of competition instead of having a software monopoly on their own console like they're used to.  Imagine if the next Zelda had to compete with the next Fallout / GTA / COD / Uncharted, etc. when it releases, instead of nothing at all.

You are correct that Nintendo has released some duds, Ultra Smash & Amiibo Festival certainly fall in that category but some of the titles you listed dont, Rainbow Curse, Woolly World & Nintendo Land, while not the greatest games ever, arent duds. Those 3 titles all have scores in the mid-high 70s. Not great but certainly not duds.

Nintendo software had no problem selling on NES & SNES which both had great 3rd party support so i dont think added competition would really affect them.