I actually think it'd be somewhat interesting if Nintendo just accepted that Western 3rd party devs treat them like crap and just started to fill out the holes in their software library on their own, relying on multi-plats more for things like yearly sports game updates and that's it.

Heck, I wouldn't mind if Nintendo maybe went back to making their own NBA (Courtside series on N64/GCN), NHL
(NHL Stanley Cup on SNES), and MLB games (Ken Griffey Jr. games).

Outside of like five-to-six third party franchises that tend to be multiplat -- Call of Duty, Madden NFL, FIFA, Resident Evil, LEGO, Sonic, how many even really matter on Nintendo consoles? I guess throw in Assassin's Creed now and what else? Maybe Nintendo would like to see Final Fantasy return for a while before it switches to the PS4/720. 

If I'm Nintendo, I'd perhaps look at some cheap options to expand the diversity of my catalog. Contract the Darksiders and Saint's Row teams to make a fantasy-action IP and a sandbox game, since THq is now defunt both teams are likely deserpate for work. I'd maybe look at picking up an underutilized movie license ... perhaps something like Mission: Impossible (could do some neat things with the Wii U tablet with that for sure), so you're not building completely unknown IPs every time.

I'd go ahead and greenlit a soccer sim to compete with FIFA and ISS. Add in an arcade mode that lets you play as Mario and co. Soccer is obviously huge in Europe, Asia, South America, Japan, and growing in North America.

Really? What are the top 10 exclusive franchises then?

1) I actually think it'd be somewhat interesting if Nintendo just accepted that Western 3rd party devs treat them like crap and just started to fill out the holes in their software library on their own, relying on multi-plats more for things like yearly sports game updates and that's it.

2) If I'm Nintendo, I'd perhaps look at some cheap options to expand the diversity of my catalog. Contract the Darksiders and Saint's Row teams to make a fantasy-action IP and a sandbox game, since THq is now defunt both teams are likely deserpate for work. I'd maybe look at picking up an underutilized movie license ... perhaps something like Mission: Impossible (could do some neat things with the Wii U tablet with that for sure), so you're not building completely unknown IPs every time.

They didn't care about Metroid Prime 3, so you don't need to wait with your indifference.

I actually think it'd be somewhat interesting if Nintendo just accepted that Western 3rd party devs treat them like crap and just started to fill out the holes in their software library on their own, relying on multi-plats more for things like yearly sports game updates and that's it.

Heck, I wouldn't mind if Nintendo maybe went back to making their own NBA (Courtside series on N64/GCN), NHL
(NHL Stanley Cup on SNES), and MLB games (Ken Griffey Jr. games).

Outside of like five-to-six third party franchises that tend to be multiplat -- Call of Duty, Madden NFL, FIFA, Resident Evil, LEGO, Sonic, how many even really matter on Nintendo consoles? I guess throw in Assassin's Creed now and what else? Maybe Nintendo would like to see Final Fantasy return for a while before it switches to the PS4/720. 

If I'm Nintendo, I'd perhaps look at some cheap options to expand the diversity of my catalog. Contract the Darksiders and Saint's Row teams to make a fantasy-action IP and a sandbox game, since THq is now defunt both teams are likely deserpate for work. I'd maybe look at picking up an underutilized movie license ... perhaps something like Mission: Impossible (could do some neat things with the Wii U tablet with that for sure), so you're not building completely unknown IPs every time.

I'd go ahead and greenlit a soccer sim to compete with FIFA and ISS. Add in an arcade mode that lets you play as Mario and co. Soccer is obviously huge in Europe, Asia, South America, Japan, and growing in North America.

Problem is though, that Nintendo won't pay for exclusivity like MS. They're publishing Bayo2, but it's not like they were in a bidding war with MS over the game...

From the last generation only (No 3DS or WIi U numbers):

Wii Sports/Play - 135 million

Pokemon - 73 million

New Super Mario Bros. - 55 million

Mario Kart - 55 million

Brain Age/Academy - 45 million

Wii Fit - 44 million

Halo 36 million

Super Mario (3D) - 27 million

Nintendogs - 25 million

Mario and Sonic at the Olympics 24 million

And if you don't want to count 3D and 2D Mario as separate franchises, then #11 - Legend of Zelda would be the new #10 at 19 million.
#12 is Gears of War at 18 million, then Animal Crossing and Kinect Sports are each around 17 million. The Dragon Quest games land between 16 and 17 million. Sony is not nearly as powerful a player with exclusive franchises: The highest Sony exclusive franchises were Uncharted and Monster Hunter at 15 million on par with the Professor Layton games, followed by Gran Turismo at 12 million.

These do not include Wii Ware or Virtual console versions of the franchises. Otherwise, Nintendo franchises would be even higher.

The bottom line is that Nintendo is by far the most powerful when it comes to exclusive franchises.

And why is that? They are indirectly doing it for Bayo, they're paying for an exclusive, though it is a different situation, it is still a strategy to it. So regardless of how it's being done, it's being done, and that's the bottom line.