Nintendo: Going 3rd Party without going 3rd Party

[bigtakilla]

jonathanalis said:

bigtakilla said:

If they do that, they may as well shoot their hardware r and d department in the face, because but would pretty much assure Wii U sales figures from that point on (and they'd honestly be very lucky to pull those numbers off)making them a liability. Then add in the fact that Sony would want their share of all sales, and the cost of adding and maintaining more servers, and I question how much more money Nintendo would essentially make.
Then we can also assume no true new ways to play as they'd have to work on all systems... How is this a win for Nintendo?

but also add the fact that a 5 years subscription would be much better than the cost of producing a console, and they earn all(except the sony share) the profit. and if no one like that and the virtual NX is a flop, it wouldnt be a shoot in the face, cos the other only way is getting the hardware. But if the sony demanded share was too big, of course it wont be good for nintendo. some assumptions are needed.

About the new ways to play, i explained that developers would make the game for NX. The emulator that would mapthe controllers, the developer wouldnt have to do any more effort to run on other consoles. And of course im suposing that NX would be a tradictional screen and buttons system.

But in the OP scenario they are still making consoles.... We need to assume the other companies wouldn't take more than (insert whatever would be fair I guess).... And would assume the ways Nintendo games would play would be able to be ported to other consoles with only having to simply remap the controls.... 

 

That is a WHOLE lot of assuming we've done here....

 

Now let's look at what the NX is going for. 

One machine where all Nintendo games will be on

Movies and television shows to make their franchises house hold names (generating interest in their IP)

Allowing their games to expand into the smartphone business ( a no brainer for huge profits)

All the profits they get with no middle man. 

Now which do you think is the better strategy?