The only people who cheer for Nintendo to go third party, IMO, are not long-time Nintendo fans, but people who want to be able to play Mario or Zelda on PC or PS or Xbox.
Nintendo certainly needs to learn from their Wii U era mistakes, but I think the day they went third party, would be a very sad day for the industry. And you could pretty much say goodbye to any new entries in the vast majority of their franchises. They would just become a homogenized "Mario and Zelda and Pokemon" machine at that point.
It already sucks, quite frankly, that the other "old guard" companies like Atari and Sega shit the bed and dropped out of the race. Neither of them have done too hot since, either. Nintendo is the last remaining "first party" company to still be, first and foremost, a GAME company. The Playstation consoles have by and large been good systems, but it still sucks that the industry has become dominated by mega-corporations that happen to have video game divisions, and "AAA" Third Party companies that crap out games like CoD and Assassin's Creed and Madden every single year. And almost all of the companies that once ruled the industry with quality games, are either dead, like Midway, Hudson Soft, THQ, Factor 5, Free Radical, etc., or might as well be, like Capcom, Konami, Namco, Sega, and Square-Enix.
So no. Even though I really don't like where the industry is at these days, and most of the new games I find myself actually interested in are typically indie titles, I don't want to see Nintendo go third party. They have made some REALLY fuckin' stupid moves in the past few years. But if they could get their act together again, they WERE the one last big company that I said I could usually rely on.
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