Barkley on 16 July 2016
| RolStoppable said: As for the argument that Nintendo should keep making hardware because they are still profitable despite a low volume of sales, that makes a whole lot more sense when losses for selling hardware do not apply anymore. That's what holds largely true for the latter years of this generation. But the bigger reason for Nintendo to keep making hardware is that the potential profits from such a business model are far greater than going third party. Regarding the losses this generation, a company like Nintendo which has several billions of cash reserves easily survives it. The losses would have had to be multiple times higher in order to humor a legitimate discussion about whether or not Nintendo should go third party. As it is, it was and is nothing more than wishful thinking of people who do not want to buy Nintendo hardware for whatever reason. |
Absolutely, the Wii was much more succesful for Nintendo then going third party would have been, while the software business is safer and less of a risk there is higher potential for them making hardware. In the event of the NX failing atrociously too then the question would arise, but as of now, nintendo should remain in the hardware business, and I'm confident their financial situation will improve as it has done the past two fiscal years.
