I like how you are saying that nintendo is going to be a software only company as if it was a fact. Consoles aren't going anywhere. Like I said before, consoles survived before the casual wave and will survive once again without them.

I hope they never go software in the future.. i don't believe the industry will survive without Nintendo.

As Nintendo continues to license Arcade games.

http://www.bandainamcogames.co.jp/corporate/press/release/58/pdf/20130206.pdf

I fear the day I see the real life version of your avatar

Oh my god your avatar is frightening lol.

That might actually be cool

I'd probably rather see Nintendo/Sony>Nintendo/Microsoft

I actually think that many large publishers and (potentially) Sony and/or Microsoft will be out of the gaming business long before Nintendo ... There seems to be a certain suicidal quality to their business models that they don't seem willing or able to restrain.

Nintendo is highly successful with the 3DS, and will likely be able to rebound with the Wii U to turn it into a successful system, and be able to release successors to these systems. In contrast, depending on what Sony and Microsoft produce as consoles, many large publishers won't be around to see Nintendo release their successors.

Nintendo makes you do it with a Wiimote in front of Miyamoto if you don't fill out your monthly smile making quota

it would kinda be awkward if they were forced to go back to Nintendo after all these years lol.

Square Enix:  Hey buddy remember FF6?  We totally had your back those Sony guys never meant anything to us!

Would you count that as a counterpoint to what he said?

Nintendo started off making Arcade Games.