I would like to play their games on better hardware.3DS games on Vita would be beast.They would be the bigest third party company.

Probably get it on PS4

You forgot to include the 5th poll option:

"What a pointless poll, why did you bother creating this?"

That's like saying "Would you buy The Last of Us/Halo/God of War/fill in your fav. console exclusive on your favorite console?"

If they're not buying it, then there's obviously not enough.

I'd totally buy MK8 on PS4. I would have bought that heavily discounted WiiU yesterday for it if they had any stock.

No. I dislike Mario Kart.

Nope, but I would buy LittleBigPlanet 3 on my WiiU since the franchise is very good!

From what I recall Nintendo made 65% of their videogame profits on the hardware and 35% on the software. How exactly would benifit more than the others?

That might have been true when they were in their Wii hay day.  But right now, and even the generations before that, people just don't want their systems.  Most gamers will gladly buy their Playstations and their Xboxes, but they don't want to drop the money on a system just to play Nintendo games.  At the end of this gen when the Wii U has sold poorly to modestly and the other systems have sold 80 million or whatever, there's going to be no denying that Nintendo would have made more money just releasing third party.  Especially when you consider all the R&D and effort that went into a system that never got very popular.

I really don't understand how this is even a question.  Their systems (apart from Wii, which I honestly believe was a one-time thing) are struggling to stay relevant.  Sony and Microsoft are both in powerful positions and don't even need to consider going third party.

Weren't we talking about making money? Halo 5 would sell twice as much or maybe a little more if going third party, the same for Uncharted or God of War. And since Sony is losing money like crazy it wouldn't be a bad idea to going third party (and I know that their PS division is doing good financially). Actually, it is more possible that we see the video game divisions of MS or Sony going third party first than Nintendo. Also, don't forget how good 3DS is selling and how Vita is struggling globally (wasn't Sony not struggling to get people to buy their consoles? Or will we say conveniently that portable consoles doesn't count when it comes to judge the situation of both companies?), we aren't talking about a critical situation for Nintendo here. Even in the GameCube era the system was selling at a profit since the beginning and the GameBoy Advance did it real good too.

Who knows, maybe the next generation Nintendo would be back on top of the sales again or maybe not (who would have thought back in 2005 that the DS and that project Revolution would be the sales phenomenon that they were?) Maybe Sony will win this generation (in home consoles of course), maybe not, this is just getting started.

Games are great despite mediocre hardware? So you are more interested in great hardware than great games? I suspect quite a few people fall into this category, people who get so focused on hardware that they fail to see the quality that really matters. The games.