Um, game consoles play games. You want the games, that means you want the hardware.

"Oh man I love all these games! Too bad I gotta buy the console to play them." lol what kind of logic is this?

Might as well have no consoles and everyone plays on a PC.

Yes that sounds extreme but that's how many of you come across! Like me saying that I'm interested in Game of Thrones but I don't want to subscribe to HBO to watch the show... So now let me start the topic of hoping that HBO goes out of business as a premium content provider and just puts their stuff on Netflix, because I'm happy to pay for that.

It sounds very self centered no matter how much people want to beat the conversation to death. I could entertain having the conversation of people wanting Microsoft and Nintendo to team up as more of a logical thought than them just cutting hardware altogether.

i think switch 2 will be tegra 3 processor in 3 years. called Switch Pro.  with ps4 + specs

Okay but NONE of that explains your last statement that because it doesn't say Sony on the box that it hurts some peoples feelings though. That's what I was asking. And you stated the Switch was the most powerful dedicated gaming device ever created. And that was my first time ever seeing that so I was curious how you came to that conclusion. But are you meaning just mobile?

Also no goalposts have been moved people have been saying that about Nin going 3rd party since long before the Switch. So nothing has changed there, me personally I am not a huge fan on Nin games outside of 2 or 3 games  so it doesn't really bother me either way if they go 3rd party or not. It just seems odd when these topics come up and a person give thier opinion and some points that people attack them instead of debating things with them.

Heck in this thread alone I have seen people talk about being hurt because they can't play  the games on their console of choice. The well tell your console of choice to make better games.  The Sony and MS only care about graphics amd don't care about gameplay and innovation narrative smh. It is odd just to attack someone fot having  a different opinion.  Heck Sony and MS seem to take WAY more chances  than Nin imo of course. MS always gets crap for pumping out the same stuff Halo/Gears/Forza/Fable. Or Sony with Uncharted/Gran Turismo/God of war but Nin can make 50 iterations of Mario, 20 Pokemon games, 10 Zelda games and it is amazing. I just don't get that. I loved Pikmin when it came out because it was something new and it felt like they were finally taking a chance to me. I don't know it is just to each his/her own based on their tastes 

If they went third party, I fully anticipate my interest in Nintendo products would drop below that crucial threshold where I'm actually willing to pay them any money.

I don't own the competing platforms, and I'm not sure I would just because Nintendo games were available on them. It's not like I'm hurrying out to get a smart phone so I can play Pokémon Rumble/Pokémon Go/Miitomo/Fire Emblem Heroes/Super Mario RUN.

Before anyone says that these are completely different games, I am willing to argue that Nintendo's console offerings would also have to be completely different in order to be viable on competing platforms.

This post doesn't work when you look at Sony's first party studios output.

Oh, ho! You sound like a Nintendo supporter! ;)

(edit) Also, Naum's right: given the power of a good gaming PC, just imagine what Sony's first party devs could do if they weren't constricted by PS4's weak hardware! Sony should definitely go 3rd party.

New idea for a thread! "Can we agre Sony should go third party, now?"

Both Sony and Nintendo need to go 3rd party.

Let us chose the hardware(hhmmm..PC) to run them.

There are many Xbox people lol.

Pretty clearly the era of 'magic sauce' is long over,  you have the growing shift to digital, you have Sony iterating hardware classes and Nintendo making its most  current games on low end hardware and toying with mobile market. 

May as wells open up the market completely, let your developers imagination run wild and reach more gamers by removing  the barriers. They can still produce the hardware they want, but their software development should go multiplatform.