I'm more annoyed at Nintendo seemingly trying so hard to make this a reality.

This is where I would like a gif of all these guys getting battered by Iwata's bombs. People will never learn that though Nintendo is making the most money in the industry the haters are constantly calling their doom.

I wish the world were more intelligent.

That's actually a pretty good point. To me personally anyway. I would love to play A Link to the Past 2 and the new Super Smash Brothers. But I don't feel the need to buy eighth gen Nintendo consoles at all.

But the reward for a company going 3rd party would still be way higher for Nintendo than either of the other two. Sony or MS go 3rd party and even if they support a Nintendo console... cool. You now get Nintendo games and maybe some MS/Sony games. Meanwhile if Nintendo went 3rd party you'd get MS or Sony games, all the AAA 3rd party games, all the best indie games, and Nintendo games.

I am just saying, it's not hard to see why some would want them to go 3rd party. It makes sense.

Nintendo would probably make so much more money as just a third party publisher at least in the home console front who honestly wouldn't buy a zelda or mario game at that point

I think it would be the right decision for them to go 3rd party (to an extent), but carry on making handheld consoles.

I was watching it as well... Nothing new to be honest. Nintendo is a videogame company, they make great games and great consoles, that's their business. The had some valid points, probably Nintendo could make money selling some old games on mobile devices... But the thing with Nintendo, is that third parties want a single console, or three identical consoles so they can reach more gamers (which is fine, thier business is to sell games, as many as possible) but Nintendo has always have thier own philosophy, they create consoles with their games in mind and thats fine, thats their ecosystem. 3rd parties can be successful on nintendo consoles, all they have to do is to create good and appealing games for Nintendo fans, yet they only send barebone/late versions of the games and they expect good sales...

If Nintendo is the best of the 3 at making money in the gaming business, why in hell should they be the ones out of the 3 to exit the race?

I'm sorry if your post makes absolutely zero sense whatsoever.

Are you sure that, when Nintendo actually does it right (like with Wii, DS, and 3DS), they don't make tons of money off of their Consoles? They make these consoles, then make the games for them, then make profit because all of it their's.

Wouldn't you think it would be a good idea for it to stay that way? (For Nintendo's sake, anyway. I'm sure many people on these forums would like to see them fall and turn into a Third Party developer.)

Well it is frustrating.. especially since most people like to compare Nintendo and Sega.. (Who was once a first party company) The thing people seem to forget about Sega is once they went third party.. their games went down dramatically in quality and a lot of their legendary franchises were either updated to mostly average at best games.. and some were just forgotten completely.. (Phantasy Star.. the actual series.. not online versions.. and Oasis which had a legendary 32 bit prequel made). Shining for the most part is a joke.. from the old series.. I am not saying all their games are crap.. (They did release some good ones.. Virtua Fighter.. a few Sonics.. ) I don't think Nintendo will go that route exactly.. but I do think a lot of franchises that they support.. and make will just disappear.. or sink in quality if they don't// yeah you might get a good Zelda.. but who cares if Metroid, Mario, Fire Emblem and everything else goes to crap.. or disappears in oblivion..