People who like Nintendo games buy their hardware and grab the games and having their games on other platforms would hardly make a difference to their software sales, There is to many people around this days that are like "I like Nintendo IP but don't buy there hardware, They should go 3rd party" and have been saying the same for 20 years now and in the end whether Nintendo software is on a different platform they wouldn't buy it anyway.
If for some reason they did for a start they would loose $20 in platform fees from every $60 new game they released, You also have to take into consideration that Nintendo games stay at full price giving Nintendo a high profit per unit sold where as other platforms its basically expected for a game to drop from $60-$40 within 3 months and at $30 6 months after release which they would have to follow the trend along with a much bigger used game market for the other consoles so even if they sold more copies the profit margin would be a lot lower. Also some Nintendo only fans may not even continue to buy their games as they would have to pay $40 a year to play MK, Splatoon, Smash, etc online which was free.
I've never understood why people think Nintendo would continue to release there current quantity/quality of software if they gave up the hardware business and at the end of the day if Nintendo decided to go a software only company they would size down go like 90% smartphone development and leave maybe a Zelda here and there along with cheap Mario spinoffs as a 3rd party developer.
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