As far as why Nintendo doesn't do these things, the answer is simple. They don't like playing fast and loose with their money. They'd rather play it safe and live to fight another day, than constantly be the sort of company that barley has more assets than it has debt (Sony). Or to put it another way, they don't want to try to sell a metric heapton of consoles at a loss, and then spend the next seven years trying to make it up in software sales.
Also, Switch could easily wind up getting the same third party support as 3DS. That would just be fantastic.







