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Soundwave on 03 August 2016
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thismeintiel said:
Soundwave said:

Apple is huge in Japan too. And pretty big in Europe too. 

Nintendo could always enter into a partnership with Apple or Google or about half dozen other companies rather than go 3rd party too. Being a 3rd party is nothing great, ask Sega. 

Nintendo could get a much more favorable and better deal than that, again I've said it before it's like thinking a Victoria Secret supermodel suddenly has to date the fat guy at the end of the bar just because she broke up with her athlete boyfriend. Nope. She's going to have plenty of better offers than grovelling like a regular divorcee would have to. 

Again, reread my last sentence.  "Of course, Nintendo wouldn't let itself be bought by Apple. They would rather go 3rd party or mobile themselves than lose control of their IPs."  Nintendo would have to be in some really hard times for them to not have full control of what they release and what they want to release it on. 

And 3rd party WOULD NOT be the same thing for Nintendo as it was for Sega.  Sega is in the position it is in because of poor decisions in finances and making poor games with Sonic slapped on them just for a quick buck.  Nintendo still has pride in their work.  They could release a full-fledged Mario game on PS4/XBO/Mobile on their terms and timetables and sell millions easily. 

It's going to take more than "terms", Sony and MS are going to have to offer Nintendo much more than that IMO. 

Nintendo doesn't need to go slumming like a common 3rd party when many vendors like Apple or Google or Facebook or Disney would likely be quite happy to finance/co-develop hardware with Nintendo. 

So Sony/MS will have to top that and IMO the price will be steep. I would say MS would basically have to give Nintendo control of their XBox division pretty much for example and a huge money hat for them to consider something like that. 

And you're right, Nintendo is in a very different position from Sega, Pokemon Go shows how valuable their IP can be, so they have options that Sega never could've dreamed of. 

Given the choice I think Nintendo would prefer to work with another company (like say a Google or Samsung even if they don't want to work with Apple) on a hardware platform that they have considerable control and design input in than just be a regular third party.