Ah? $150? A lot? We exist in a community that day 1's things like Mafia 3 for $60+ , it is certainly not a lot for a decent GPU.

Tell that to people who can only afford consoles.

that's the most expensive part next to the cpu, $400 for all the parts.

Although the partnership with Disney does sound cool.

If Nintendo fail the console market, I see them putting more focus into the other aspects of their business such as movies, toys and theme parks. But I don't think they will stop making games as long as they are beloved by the gamers.

They have already signed up with universal to have Nintendo themed areas. Nintendo are going to make a fortune from merchandise and I don't think it will be long before we see pixar style Nintendo movies with Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Mario etc. universal already have a successful portfolio with Despicable Me and Minions. can you imagine if they made a movie with Minions and Mario.

If they went third party i wouldn't mind if they focused on mobile as only thing i would want is a Smash Bros with some Sony characters aswell which would be the perfect smash imo.

They have contributed a great deal to the industry in both hardware and software and they still contribute.  They led the way getting Unity on consoles with Wii U. Wii U may have been a sales failure but some idea's and philosophy compeition carried on. Their software is designed specifically with their hardware in mind down to the controllers. It's vital. Mario 64 only exists because analog stick. Hell Super Mario on NES only exists because Dpad. They need their hardware design to make their games and Sony and MS often take ideas and run with it.  SEGA was hugely important in the 90s to hardware with stuff like SEGA Model 1,2,3 which was the Unreal Engine of it's day as that was the era everything wanted to look as good as arcades. Arcades became irrelevant but a lot of SEGA's innovation many copied. We lost a lot more than we gained when SEGA went 3rd party. Advancing hardware and the only company who could compete with Nintendo IPs.  Less compeition is always a bad thing.

The problem here is that Nintendo has hundreds of employees who work programming games, and they don't know to make other things (in a proffesional way). So, unless they decide to fire all those employees and start to hire people that do other things (and thats not probable), they'll still be in the gaming business.

If you're talking about options like going mobile only, well, it's not very probable (not every Nintendo IP has the potential of Mario/Pokémon to make profit at mobile) and, anyway, that would still be going third party...