is this a joke thread? it needs games needs variety.

Nintendo would spend bucketloads on the studio, the talent would leave or get laid off because of redundancy and a team would start work on either one game or another... Meaning, sure, Nintendo could aquire new ips but that doesn't translate into making more games. Unless however, Nintendo then decides to invest even more by creating another team to work on another game. More building space, more payroll, more office supplies ect ect. Or... Nintendo could just suck up to third parties and let them worry about all that... Hmm.. Which is smarter...

If Nintendo can manages to releas only GREAT Nintendo games, whether franchises or new IPs like Wonderful 101, without milking or repeating bland releases until it looses it's point like they did with Toad BS Adventure and New Super Mario Bros U...

...then yes they can survive solely based on Nintendo franchises, because real video game players, even those who hate the Wii U like I do and like any real Nintendo connoisseur does, you'll have to have Wii U eventually to play Super Mario Universe, F-Zero 128, Zelda U, Wonderful 101, Mario Kart 8, Super Smash U, Starfox Adventure 2, Metroid Omega, Donkey Kong Adventure etc...

Yep.

imo rather then some crazy ass ideas they should hire Jack Trenton pay his ass triple what sony did and have him wooo wine and dine 3rd parties.  Would be a million time better investment then buying any dev devs.

Third parties are always complaining about how hard it is to compete against Nintendo's own games. To be entirely honest, if they recognise that their games aren't as good as Nintendo games, but refuse to learn from Nintendo as to how to make better games, then they deserve the fate that they'll get.

Agreed. Unfortunately it's easier said than done considering the mature audience's fear of being associated with Nintendo's family friendly image.

Who knows, maybe the Bayonetta 2 and Devil's Third support is the first sign of a larger plan to turn things around.

The simple matter is that third party developers have their playground. They may not necessarily prosper in that playground, which is a very demanding, high competition, high-upfront-risk space, but they are obviously comfortable in there and that isn't going to change for a while. Nintendo can either find a cost-effective way to rent a shelter on that playground without undermining core Nintendo hardware design values, or they can acknowledge that the kids on the playground aren't going to visit them very much and try to build a completely separate strategy.

no bud no.

thats just pr bs they feed you to make ninty fans happy they arent getting their games, and it works so freaking good i have to applaud them.

Most big 3rd party games dont directly compete with any of Nintys big franshises. 

Then they better be content with their consoles selling no more than 20 million unit, tops.

They need third party games.Not only because the competition will have it but also because they can't release 1 game per month.

Nintendo fanboys need to stop with this "nintendo don't need third parties".

It's a dumb elitism that only hurt nintendo gamers.There is a lot of third party franchises that are as good as nintendo own IPs.Games that,unfortunately, nintendo gamers can't play thanks to nintendo bad decisions.(unless they have other platform like PS4/Xone/PC)