| Barkley said: I would love to not be forced to shell out $300 on hardware I don't want to have the privilege of spending $60 on games I do want. So personally I would love Nintendo to go third party, because I don't like there hardware but I like there software. My wallet will cry out in tears this holiday when I'm spending money on a product I don't really want. |
Well that's the thing: you DO want it. You may lament the fact that Switch is underpowered compared to PS4/XOne (which are both underpowered compared to high-end rigs) but you want to buy the system to play those must-have games. That's financial proof right there why Nintendo should stay in the hardware game. It can use its attractive software to sell hardware, accessories, DLC, subscriptions, etc. And then it can use that leverage to recruit more developers who have to pay Nintendo to put their games on its hardware. I'd be floored if several million more copies of Nintendo software on other systems would replace those licensing and subscription fees, plus revenue generated by hardware and accessories.
As for the request that Nintendo put its must-have games on a more powerful system: there's no guarantee Nintendo would use the extra power and no way to predict whether individual franchises would survive the leap from hardware/software to software only. Those must-have games might disappear altogether or change in unexpected ways.
I dunno, I just don't see it. It's a short-term, near-sighted solution at best. At worst it's a death knell for Nintendo, which I imagine is what a lot of console partisans actually want.
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