If Nintendo leaves hardware, they will probably make games for Smartphones. Don't expect the games to turn up on PS4 or X1.

Nintendo would rather take their legendary IP's to the grave.

You hope an entire video game console fails just so you don't "have" to buy it?

Wow. Stay classy, people of the Internet.

They've got games like mario kart,  Smash, Splatoon and pokemon that would likely sell around 10m each on ps4/X1/pc. 

If they went smartphone only they'd be crazy.  

LOOOOL, you're going to get so much shit for this. xD

Well thats rather selfish of you OP

I guess they will do fine.

Wii U can be considered a failure in sales terms but Nintendo is doing good.

I really want nx to succeed but I fear for my money lol. I'm really happy with my ps4, but a great Nintendo console with 3rd and their 1st party games sounds like a solid deal. I can kinda relate but I still want nx to be very good. Companies compete, we win.

Pokemon was never on home console. It would be fit very fine on smartphone. Also Mario Kart and Smash are easy to do for smartphone and tablets. Only Splatoon would probably die.

Games are a lot more expensive to develop for WiiU, than for 3DS. For phones and tablets the costs would decrease again. Nintendo is already experimenting with free to play and other models on 3DS and develops for smartphones. I see them rather giving up on home console, because handheld games sell so much better and cost so much less for them. So if they fail on their own hardware, they would be stupid to enter another very cost-intensive and risky development area. I expect them to concentrate on handhelds, but IF they give up on hardware there is no longer a dedicated gaming handheld, so they would logically concentrating on the game business they already expanding into: phones and tablets.

Hahaha ... no. Playing smash bros with a touchscreen over buttons and an analog stick is near impossible to do. The 3ds version of smash gets shit on by the smash competitive commmunity and even that version would be miles ahead of a smartphone version.