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thismeintiel on 03 August 2016
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Soundwave said:
thismeintiel said:

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 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) on a hardware platform that they have considerable control and design input in than just be a regular third party. 

Sony and MS wouldn't have to offer them anything.  If the NX crashes and burns, Nintendo only has two options.  They either go mobile. Or they stick with consoles, possibly porting their games to mobile.  No one has to offer them anything, because Nintendo no longer holds the cards.  Unless they want to stop making games, they have to have something to put them on.

Sure, they have good IPs, but after the Wii U and hypothetical NX failure, it's obvious those IPs won't carry a system.  I'm sure MS may offer them money to have their games exclusive, depending how well the Xbox division is doing then, but I'm not sure Nintendo would take it.  Especially if they would have to ignore the 70M+ PS4 systems that would be out at that time. All Sony would do is probably offer a free dev kit and the same deal they make to any 3rd party and Nintendo could release it on whatever system they wanted.

And I highly doubt they want to go into a partnership with Google or Apple at that point, because in the position Nintendo would find itself, both would want something in return besides the fees Sony and MS ask to publish a game on their system.  Like part ownership of Nintendo.  Or of the IPs.  And they would have greater control over the development of those games.  Those are things Nintendo wants to avoid at all costs.