Can we agree Nintendo should go third party, now?

[Eagle367]

Kyuu said:

Eagle367 said:
Anyone who thinks Nintendo going third party would be good for them is dead wrong. If Nintendo ever goes third party which it won't for at least 15-20 more years at the very least, if ever, the company would be facing its own death. They would either have to move on to a better business or die off as a company. Nintendo makes great exclusives because they have their own hardware to work with. The Nintendo magic works with both software and hardware combined. Take one away and you are left with a company that is a shell of it's former self. The game quality would decrease, the innovation would stop and Nintendo would have to be in a pretty low morale to decide to go third party. Nintendo software needs Nintendo hardware to work. On top of that the industry needs Nintendo to keep making hardware. Without them the PS15 would look just like the PS4 except more powerful. The controller would be pretty much the same and so would the play style. Same for Xbox. On top of that Nintendo has taken a loss, what like once in a century? While even with small profits in every other year of their worst selling consoles life means they are still making more cash, even at a steady pace. Nintendo is so stable financially it could take losses for years on ene dworhoit it affecting them that much. But now with the switch getting ready to sell more than half of the Wii U's lifetime sales by December this year and the 3ds still selling relatively well Nintendo is all set to start making Nintendo like profits once again.

Hardware design is completely irrelevant to why Ninendo excells at making games. As a matter of fact one could easily argue the opposite is true. I mean if the original Wii were as powerful as PS3, it would have been technically possible to make BotW 10 years ago...

There is financial risk in Nintendo going third party which could potentially lead to a drop in quality, but hardware design is a non-issue. The great majority of Nintendo's best games could be made, and become even better, on more powerful traditional consoles like PS4.

What do Switch and Wii U have in common that makes porting games from one to the other acceptable?
What makes it alright, design-wise, to port BotW to Switch and not to PS4? and what is that "magic" that will be lost if it were to be made on PS4?..

The only reason the games Nintendo makes are of such high quality is because they know the ins and outs of their system. If Botw was released for PS4 it would not be nearly of the quality it is, it wouldn't be in such a small storage space and the optimization would have been subpar. Besides Wii Sports could never come to PS3 or xbox360. The DS and 3ds games would be awful on the PSP or PS vita. Splatoon would have bombed harder than knack without the bundle sales had it been third party. Sure there were swing and misses with games like starfox zero but it was still something that never would have happened on the other consoles. On top of that Nintendo would not have been nearly as rich as they are and they would fall flatter than Sega in that regard. Nintendo's freedom would also be taken away. When you make software for your own hardware you can be experimental and sometimes make gems. A third party being experimental would be a huge risk and a danger to their existence if it flops. The deadlines would have been stricter and the creative workload would be greater resulting in a drop in fun ideas and innovation. Something like splatoon and ARMS would never come about. They would have to make more generic or tried and true versions as well. I imagine nintendogs and iwata's brain training would never be a thing. We wouldn't have the same games is what I am saying and in my opinion they would have been worse than what Nintendo makes right now. The wealth of IP would have decreased drastically as well and we would have a sequel every other year. It would have been a totally different ball game and people like me would not be gaming anymore. Many many many things could go wrong but right now Nintendo is getting its groove back and its so damn stupid to think Nintendo would ruin itself based on one failed system or the crying of some people on the internet. The PS4 and Xbone are basically the same thing and without Nintendo as a hardware maker the market will surely shrink. The switch could be the thing that becomes the next norm. Who knows if the PS6 is a 1080p 20 Tflops tablet with a dock because many things we call norm now are innovations by Nintendo. You forget that without Nintendo the industry could have died and that could happen again. If Nintendo is not there, how will Sony or Microsoft deal with it? The trioka balances itself when one company screws up the other two cover for it in the market. If logically you think about it the most sense of anyone going third party is Microsoft but financially that's stupid. So is Nintendo going third party. Financially Sony is the likely candidate to go third party. I don't know in what angle is Nintendo the no.1 candidate to go third party except in people's dreams