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Soundwave on 20 September 2016
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bigtakilla said:
Soundwave said:

Shared library = effectively the end of the Nintendo home console. 

If you put all the Wii U games on the 3DS, the Wii U's sales would be like 4-5 million instead of its already pathetic 12 million, even if it could play 3DS games.

And to have a shared library you can't have a huge gap in power between the two devices. Bye-bye 2 TFLOP console dreams. 

But you still effectively open your game library up to everyone. I'm sure there would be more Wii Us sold and more games on it if it were the only system. But also imagine what the software of games like Splatoon would have sold being on both Wii U and 3DS. Nintendo may take a loss on hardware sold, but that's only a part of where their profit comes from. 

That said, there would be NO need to buy both. But that's good for consumers. And they always have the option to buy both if they want their home console games on the go. 

I actually don't think it would help the Wii U at all. 

It would sell even worse than it has if it was basically just a "3DS TV", which is basically all a console is going to be if you put all of its games on the portable. 

Most people when presented the choice of the two options would just take the portable model, because it has all the same games AND is portable on top of that. 

Mind you 5 to 1, people choose the 3DS over getting a Wii U as is, the gaps for the GBA and GCN was similar, DS-Wii was closer but only because of a controller craze that's highly unlikely to ever happen again.