Nintendo always making profit on hardware (actually Wii U was first console with they had small loss at launch), IMO they always targeting about $50 clear profit per unit not $20-30. And you totally ignoring profit they making from addons for their hardware, that actually is huge.

Nintendo taking money whenever they can not only on software, especially this gen, hardware, software, Amiibos, toys, mobile games, themed parks, movies...so its very obvious they expanding their company and their business to different markets, they will definitely not abandon everything else and just be focused on software, that includes hardware market also.

Pokemon Go doesn't change anything for Nintendo really, because they already have plan entering mobile market, and plan is to release 5 internally developed games buy 31. March 2017, after that we will definitely see more Nintendo mobile games. Those games are specifically games designed for mobile platforms,that is one reason more why Nintendo will not not abonde they dedicated platforms, because are quite different.

Console market and espacily handheld market changed, but that doesnt mean Nintendo will abonde hardware market because those changes, they will change approach also, they saying NX is something totally new and different. Unified platform we talked about several times before easily could be success for Nintendo, in that way Nintendo could earn equal or more money like before but with less resources and investments for instance.

Point is that Nintendo can have they dedicated hardware platform and strong mobile presence in same time, with Amiibos, toys, themed parks, movies...and thats best way to go and that exatly Nintendo is doing.

I think Pokemon Go is a watershed/stunning moment for Nintendo.

Definitely now they have to look at seriously at whole host of possibilities that maybe they weren't thinking about before. 

Mario Kart iOS/Android? Do you leave $1 billion+ sitting on the table or is it time to start considering that? You have to start taking a lot of things more seriously.

Animal Crossing Mobile likely just became their most important game in development from a business POV too ... I'm guessing they are probably scrambling to make sure that is an app worthy of that brand because it could become a huge money maker for them. This idea that mobile would just be this little supplemental revenue stream for them has been completely flipped on its head (though I predicted this, I didn't forsee it happening so quickly). 

The success in mobile is most definitely a game changer, I think even Nintendo themselves is probably stunned at Pokemon Go. I think they were expecting something bigger than Miitomo, but the biggest mobile game since Candy Crush? A bigger than Minecraft sized potential megahit? The biggest gaming story of the year? That is shocking. 

It calls into question a whole bunch of things though, namely has Nintendo held back the potential of their IP by hiding them away on their propietary platforms? 

NX will proceed, but it probably now has a much shorter leash, if it isn't successful fairly quickly, Nintendo has this huge goldmine that they're sitting on that they will have no choice but to exploit moreso going forward. 

Pokemon Go is the biggest thing to happen to Nintendo in a decade. This is the mainstream breakout hit they've been dying for, the fact that it comes on a non-Nintendo hardware platform(s) has serious implications though. 

Stop making consoles is like loose his liberty, depend of iOS Android and Windows is like loose possibility of chooses...
Make a propriatary OS is best way, Iwata explained it in 2014, they need to make software and hardware like Apple, i think they would make a family of products like i-thing..
We don't speak only about money, there is politic and Strategy for futur.

Pokemon Go is so popular because concept of game that suits perfectly to mobile platforms, you will hardly achieve something like that on mobile platforms with Mario Kart. Animal Crossing could also suit great to mobile platforms, but IPs like Zelda, Mario Kart, Mario, Donkey Kong, Smash Bros, Splatoon...not merely because you can only have real and full exparanice on dedicated gaming platform for those games.

Pokemon Go will effect that Nintenodo push a little more their mobile effort, they will definitely not abonde dedicated gaming platform only because Pokemon Go success, Like I wrote, nothing will change alredy good strategie they made, like I wrote, point is that Nintendo can have they dedicated hardware platform and strong mobile presence in same time, with Amiibos, toys, themed parks, movies...and thats best way to go and that exatly Nintendo is doing. 

Nintendo is multi billion company with long history, they will definitely not change their strategy so easy just because current success of one mobile game. Pokemon Go is maybe current goldmine, but what will be in year, two, 5 years from now, if will still be gold mine, why would they close itself possibilities of choices and opportunities for hardware and console gaming just because current success of one mobile game when they dedicated platform still make profit even when they have basically the worst generation. And Nintendo is company that like to have possibilities and full control, they will definitely not become only software company, they expanding their business to toys, mobile games, themed parks, movies...they want to be more like Disney or Apple, they definitely not aiming to be just onother 3rd party.

Great post, here some people thinking only on short and fast profit and because that they saying that Nintendo basically will be only software company, and offcourse Nintendo will not do that, Nintendo is company that like to have full control of their business and to always have lost possibilities of choices and opportunities opened for them.

Sales wise you can add N64 and GC to that list, although i liked both systems personally and owned them at some point. What do you think its more likely that they make another Wii like success or they dont? Looking at the past couple of console generations im going with not. I hope i am wrong for there sakes.

If thats really the case what happened with GC and Wii U?

You sure about NX? cause Ubi seems to be giving it Just Dance and thats just about it. And remember those games actually have to sell. Something that didnt happen in the brief moment that Wii U was getting 3rd party support. I hope the NX is a better situation.

One game. That really only does well in Japan. Wow!

It has nothing to do with having faith or not in Nintendo titles, I am going buy facts of what gamers of those systems buy in bulk and it's nothing similar to Nintendo style games! Those games that you say sell a shit-ton are very similar in content to each other and once again nothing like Nintendo games. 

If you think that Zelda on Playstation would sell just as well as Uncharted, then we'll just agree to disagree right now and move on. You would be in the minority of Xbox gamers or Playstation gamers that don't believe Nintendo games are kiddie or outdated. I've been around for quite some time and have seen this mentioned not only on blogs, on YouTube, in person at gaming stores, it doesn'tmatter I can go on and on... 

Even this year's e3 Nintendo showcased a very impressive Zelda, but I saw lots of people thinking that everyone else got robbed. Lol

So to sum all of this up Nintendo keep using mobile to support your dedicated games division and everyone else wishing to play Nintendo games on Playstation and Xbox, tell Sony and Microsoft to make better games... See everyone wins

Of Course I am sure, Wii U doesn't have 3rd party at all, NX will definitely have some. Its all still under strict NDA, only Ubi somehow unannounced one game till now and Nintendo also unlaced only one game till now.

Actually we have several Monster Hunter 3DS games, and of course it not only one 3rd party IP, there are more but MH is far strongest.

Sales wise they didn't do so well, but does that make them bad consoles? Absolutely not. N64 and GC were really great consoles with excellent games. They just didn't sell great is all. Honest now, the only bad consoles I can think now from Ninten is just the Virtual Boy and the E Card Reader. Those were just bad devices that didn't work well and were just not fun.

Finding another success like the Wii is not going to be easy, but there is always that chance that they could, so there is that.

The Wii U is easy to answer. It was an idea that just didn't work and the general audience didn't like it, or even knew it existed. As for the GC, not sure why that did poorly. I guess people vastly prefered the PS2 over the GC.

Well Pokemon Go probably answers that question. If Nintendo released all the Pokemon games up to Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald on mobile, these games would very likely fill up the top 10 list of most sold games in both iOS and Android marketplaces.