Producing their own proprietary hardware is too important and prestigious to them. Nintendo would have so many ego's shattered if they had to rely on their enemies hardware to sell their games.

okr said: If they will ever have to go third party for whatever reason, I hope they'll go PC only, just to piss off the people who always wish Nintendo games will appear on their console of choice some day. (This is not aimed at the TC).

IF Nintendo goes PC, which they should if they become a third party, they'll probably launch their own eShop store to get all the profits possible, which in turn will also piss off PC gamers that will complain because they don't launch their games on Steam.

That way, Nintendo will still be able to piss off everybody, both on consoles and on PC.

OT: Something similar said the Sega die hard fans when they left the hardware market: "just until they get in the green again and can come back with a new and great machine". But things don't work that way and once their games appeared on other platforms, their consumers moved on accordingly and never looked back. 

And the same would happen with Nintendo.

I doubt that'll do much. The people who aren't willing to buy Nintendo consoles right now won't change their mind if Nintendo does all that.

No... that is not a very good idea at all...

The only argument for Nintendo going third party is their hardware repeatedly failing, if they believe they cannot create another successful console then that is when they should go third party.

He ls saying they should take their IP with them and stop making games altogether before going 3rd party! No previous hardware company that went to making software only has been extremely successful up to this point, so why do we think that Nintendo would land on Playstation and Xbox and make huge strides of new fans. 

The most likely scenario is them ending up like Sega and being a shell of their former selves if they did this...

But Nintendo make good games.

You are insane or don't know jack about sega's past.

okr said: If they will ever have to go third party for whatever reason, I hope they'll go PC only, just to piss off the people who always wish Nintendo games will appear on their console of choice some day. (This is not aimed at the TC).

I honestly want that as well. I wouldn't even mind mobile only since it would really piss off thsoe people. 

Crazy idea indeed. Why would they even go back to doing consoles after dropping them? Just sounds kinda silly to me.

JEMC said: okr said: If they will ever have to go third party for whatever reason, I hope they'll go PC only, just to piss off the people who always wish Nintendo games will appear on their console of choice some day. (This is not aimed at the TC). IF Nintendo goes PC, which they should if they become a third party, they'll probably launch their own eShop store to get all the profits possible, which in turn will also piss off PC gamers that will complain because they don't launch their games on Steam. That way, Nintendo will still be able to piss off everybody, both on consoles and on PC.   OT: Something similar said the Sega die hard fans when they left the hardware market: "just until they get in the green again and can come back with a new and great machine". But things don't work that way and once their games appeared on other platforms, their consumers moved on accordingly and never looked back.  And the same would happen with Nintendo.

Yeah sega was in a really bad position financially before that happened. The dreamcast is still my favorite console.

The better option would be to release demos on the PC to advertise their games.