Mar1217 said:
Won't happen. They'll probably make their own OS if that ever happens. Which will probably not :P |
I get why you make this objection and I agree, Ninty will want control on its platform (and royalties from third parties) even if it stops directly producing HW. But why reinventing the wheel? A third solution giving the advantages of a proprietary OS and the savings of an existing one could be making a proprietary operating environment running on Linux. This way they'd solve the problem of controlling the platform, but they shouldn't worry about drivers for a range of HW components and peripheral a lot larger than the single or very few fixed HW configs a console can have through its life, and they'd find a wide range of non-gaming apps, utilities and services ready for the Ninty machines without having to pay a cent (unless they want to integrate them better with their environment, this would require some coding and testying, but it would still be easier and less expensive than developing them from scratch).
Apart from selling (or giving it away for free and just collecting royalties from third parties and selling their first party games) the environment through all the available and suitable channels they could bundle it with recommended graphics cards and assembled PCs too.
Others tried similar business solutions in the past, but they couldn't count on Ninty first party games library and experience in the gaming market and in entertainment in a wider sense.
