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Nintendo going 3rd party would be...

The end of all! 163 44.66%
 
A wash compared to where they are at now 71 19.45%
 
A smarter business move financially speaking 45 12.33%
 
The happiest day of Sony ... 86 23.56%
 
Total:365
Screamapillar on 07 January 2014

They would be less profitable, and they'd be at the mercy of someone else's platform instead of their own. They would miss out on more than 50% of their revenue. Hardware is higher revenue, but lower margin. Software is higher margin but lower revenue.



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Zero999 on 07 January 2014

No. Next question.



Hibern81 on 07 January 2014
Zero999 said:

No. Next question.


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TheGhosts on 07 January 2014

No!!! Nintendo should never go 3rd Party!!!



Mandalore76 on 07 January 2014

While each Wii U currently sells at a loss, the console itself will eventually be cheaper to make and become profitable. And as Nintendo showed with the Gamecube era, they don't need to sell 150 million units of hardware for the hardware itself to be profitable to the company. So to give that up, no.

And to all those assuming each Nintendo developed game would suddenly be a 30 million seller if released on Microsoft and Sony consoles, just ask Ubisoft if putting Rayman Legends on PS3/360 opened the door to 30m units of software sold simply by placing it in front of a wider market.

The people who want to play Nintendo's franchises are going to buy Nintendo's console. And that's how it should be. I'm not really interested in a world where New Super Mario Bros releases on PS5 and I have to hear someone cry about a platformer costing the same about as their Call of Duty 7 even though Mario doesn't graphically look like a real person.



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DanneSandin on 07 January 2014
Hibern81 said:
Do y'all think mainline Nintendo games would sell like GTA and COD across multiple platforms?

I think the OP is a very interesting question, as is this follow up question! I would really like a more in-depth analysis of this whole topic.



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burninmylight on 07 January 2014
Mummelmann said:

No, not by a long shot.

1: They would lose the licensing/publishing royalty from developers/publishers on a platform entirely their own.

2: Nintendo having been forced to become so self-sufficient has made them an expert in creating a software/hardware synergy, their hardware depends on the software and the software depends on the hardware. Something like Wii Sports would not have been possible without a great deal of tailoring to the Wii-mote and would likely never have become such a break-out hit on a foreign platform environment.

3: Nintendo would be subject to hardware solutions, online components, marketing ploys and controller focus that would be strange to them.

4: Besides the Wii U, they usually make a lot of money on the hardware and the peripherals, you won't get to 14 billion dollars in the bank simply as a 3rd party publisher/developer, not in today's market.

5: Nintendo rely on a much higher level of market control than the others, they would essentially abandon all their advantages and lose most of their power and influence.

No way they will benefit from becoming 3rd party. It's unrealistic and horribly minsconstrued as a good option, or an option at all to their current business setup.

You know you have a bulletproof argument when no one even bothers to rebuttal you.



Mystro-Sama on 07 January 2014

Look at the 3ds and Wii sales and ask yourself that again.



ninetailschris on 07 January 2014
Hibern81 said:

This is simply a question, and not an underlying desire whatsoever. I, for one, would hate to see nintendo leave the console business.  Tha said I've often wondered if the transition would actually be more of a profitable one. Seeing as I do not have the insight or business knowledge I leave it to minds greater than mine.


No.

The reason there games have legs on there system is because they created there own market on there system. Casuals and platforms do way better on Nintendo systems than the other. They would suffer. If they were to drop the home console business they should focus on 3ds or next handheld. Seeing as there next handheld will be as strong as there console they probably do that. They could more and profit more off of games.



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Mummelmann on 07 January 2014
burninmylight said:
Mummelmann said:

No, not by a long shot.

1: They would lose the licensing/publishing royalty from developers/publishers on a platform entirely their own.

2: Nintendo having been forced to become so self-sufficient has made them an expert in creating a software/hardware synergy, their hardware depends on the software and the software depends on the hardware. Something like Wii Sports would not have been possible without a great deal of tailoring to the Wii-mote and would likely never have become such a break-out hit on a foreign platform environment.

3: Nintendo would be subject to hardware solutions, online components, marketing ploys and controller focus that would be strange to them.

4: Besides the Wii U, they usually make a lot of money on the hardware and the peripherals, you won't get to 14 billion dollars in the bank simply as a 3rd party publisher/developer, not in today's market.

5: Nintendo rely on a much higher level of market control than the others, they would essentially abandon all their advantages and lose most of their power and influence.

No way they will benefit from becoming 3rd party. It's unrealistic and horribly minsconstrued as a good option, or an option at all to their current business setup.

You know you have a bulletproof argument when no one even bothers to rebuttal you.

I honestly don't understand why this is being brought up time and time again. Not only is it not going to happen; it would also be a huge mistake in every possible sense.