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Soundwave on 01 November 2016
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bunchanumbers said:
Soundwave said:

That would be stupid. 

They'd be leaving a ton of money on the table. 

Hell, imagine the money-hat MS would offer Nintendo on a yearly basis alone, I bet it would be massive. No reason at all to turn that down. 

They can maintain their indepedence no matter what, does Apple/Google "force" Nintendo to do anything? Sony/MS wouldn't be able to either, if anything Sony/MS would jump through whatever hoops Nintendo wanted them to in order to get their support (Microsoft in particular, Nintendo could tell Spencer to run naked down Redmond if they want support and he'd probably do it, lol). 

Mobile is also problematic because last I checked, $60 games don't exactly work on mobile, a lot of their franchises would go extinct if forced only into the confines of how mobile players play (free to play, simple play mechanics). 

They've been leaving money on the table for years. They left money on the table when they made Wii U instead of a real console. They are doing it again with Switch. There's entire furniture stores jam packed full of tables with money on it. All left by Nintendo. They do what they want, and I can see mobile only being one of them.

They don't want to waste hundreds of millions developing a AAA game. Because that is what Sony and MS fans would demand from Nintendo on their machines. BOTW looks great because they made it with 2010 hardware in mind and used it to the fullest. They're not going to be doing that with a PlayStation or a Xbox. In a few years iphones will be plenty strong enough to meet their needs. Sony and MS could trot out 50 Teraflop machines and it means nothing to Nintendo. Because they don't use it.

And Nintendo won't be selling their games at $60. They barely did it on Wii U. I'm expecting lower prices, billions of dollars in sales, and MTs. I've said this before, but Switch is a transitional device. Once they use Switch to figure out how to do it, they will go full mobile. And yes, there will be plenty of franchises that die.

Nintendo sold a lot of software at $50-$60 on Wii U. 

That money from Mario Kart 8, Splatoon, NSMBU, didn't exactly go to charities, lol. 

Fact is Microsoft/Sony would both be on the phone so quickly for Nintendo offering them huge incentives to make games for their platforms if they decided to stop making their own hardware too. 

Microsoft I could see even going as far as giving them a share of their entire XBox division. The bidding war between Sony and MS for Nintendo's support would be immense. 

Nintendo would be stupid to turn that down. It's not like they couldn't still make all the shitty mobile games they wanted to, lol.