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jonathanalis on 17 August 2016
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mountaindewslave said:

illogical,

if someone can play Nintendo games on another system as WELL as the games on that system, then why on Earth would they purchase an NX? hell, I'm a Nintendo fan but if they put their games both on, say, the PS4 AND the NX then it would be shooting myself in the foot not to get the system that had both libraries

terrible idea.

Nintendo's strength is in their IPs more than their hardware. Its a relationship that depends on one another sure, doing their own hardware enables them to have unlimited freedom with their IPs, however the value is in the characters and game series. Allowing other consoles to have Nintendo games, even if only virtually, would be suicide.

In fact your idea is far worse than just suggesting Nintendo go third party entirely. One or the other, you can't successfully do an inbetween because there would be no giant incentive to have the Nintendo console as it would have zero exclusives

 

2 cases: In the first, if they dont want buy a nintendo consle, and instead the consumers pay the subscripton and buy the digital games, nintendo profit would good enough, now they would kill their hardware, but still with a strong console, besides it being virtual. And the second case where people dont want to pay a subscription, the only way is to get the hardware. so, also good for nintendo.

mountaindewslave said:
jonathanalis said:

not paying subscription. subscriptions are like 50$ a year, a nintendo console is supose to be 250$ or less. So, makes sense buying a hardware.

Anyway, killing NX or not doesnt matter here. They dont need to sell NX, the great revenue come from selling games. the console is only needed for selling games, if million of consumers pay 50 a year and also get the games, would be much better profit-wise for nintendo than selling consoles.

Nintendo almost always makes money selling their HARDWARE, as well as software.

They would not make more necessarily going third party or doing your strange plan, as you share revenue when you put a game on someone else's system. 

also in the past Nintendo has made far more money on average than their competitors, in fact Nintendo made more with the Gamecube than Sony did with the PS2, despite the PS2 selling far more software and breaking records hardware wise.

I will also point out that you seem oblivious that Nintendo makes a lot of money from accessory sales. Go to any Nintendo section in a store and you'll see lots of periphials and controllers and things, more so than their competitiors. big source of revenue

this thread is ridiculous and not well researched as Nintendo does in fact generally speaking make a lot of money from non software related sales (accessories)

good point, but im suposing we are in a new era where the nintendo consoles dont profit as well as before, looking at the recent history (wii U case). Also, why wouldnt the virtual NX accept nintendo acessories? the emulator could as well implement the integration with the acessories. the virtual console NX would be like a real console that could do anything a NX could do(except cartridges).(assuming that is possible).