Nintendo having all their games available everywhere a better business than restricting them to a console?

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Barkley said:

Miyamotoo said:

You missing point, they making profit even with their worst selling console in their history. You do realise that half of Nintendo revenue is from hardware business, and that actually biggest Nintendo strength is they have own softwar and hardware (own platform) and because of that basically they can make whatever they want!? 

By your logic, Sony would make more money if they would release Uncharted 4 (or any other game) on all other platforms, ask yourself why Sony dont do that!?

Because Sony get a very large amount of revenue from third party and ps+ subscriptions, until Nintendo get's third party support or some kind of subscription service having their own home console is irrelevant. Keeping 3DS exclusive is the right move because it does have some decent third party support and it has a fairly high installbase, and there really isn't any other platform viable for most 3ds games. Keeping the Wii exclusive was a good move, just because of it's insanely high installbase, MK Wii for example would not have sold anymore if it was released on all systems. Keeping the WiiU exclusive has held revenue back by a collossal amount.

Now keeping exclusivity is a good move still (even on the WiiU) Assuming that Nintendo's hardware returns to heights. If the NX gets substantial third party support and sales, a subscriptions service, or a very high installbase (60 million plus LTD) then it makes sense to maintain exclusivity. If that does not happen then Nintendo shouldn't have bothered.

But if they still maintain operating profits and maintain creative control of their IPs by allowing hardware to evolve in different ways than just higher specs than I'd say there's still some pretty significant relevance. Self dependance vs co dependance.

I mean, what good would a subscription service and third parties be if they were bleeding money?