Not unexpected, Ninty exclusives sell Ninty HW, and almost always Ninty starts profiting on HW very early and ends every generation with profits also on HW alone. If a PC game can help them bring more people to their consoles, they'll probably make it, just like they made a mobile Pokémon game.

Still better OP than the one for the recent MH thread, which is just a mere YT link and nothing more

in the OP i always put one image or video, article and source, sometimes I put the main things in bold, if the forum members want more things in the OP just say to me :)

Selling a game on steam would be less profitable for Nintendo. Steam takes a 30% cut off game sales, and games are often sold at bargain bin prices. So Nintendo would be forced to sell their $60 games for $30 on steam a few months after release. Then they'd have to give up a cut of $10 to steam, netting them $20 profit. On the other hand they can release their game for $60 on a console they own, give a $10 cut to the brick and mortar store, and pocket $50 in profit. Normally it wouldn't work that way, but Nintendo is the developer, publisher, distributer, and console owner, so they can take a massive slice of the pie. 

It gets even worse when you consider the extra time and cost that it takes to develop a game for PC. Making sure your game looks as good as every other AAA game, making sure your game runs great on every single PC build, and getting your game to run 60fps/1080p all take time and money. Sticking with the Switch lets Nintendo stay an entire console generation behind in graphics without much of a drawback. Remember when the Wii U had no games for months and months? That was caused by Nintendo's development team having to learn how to make games at a 360/PS3 level. 

I've seen this popping up ever since MS decided to take another crack at getting back in PC gaming's graces. What would MS have to do to pander to both markets that it has it's hands in?.

it's clear that MS has zero intentions of spending millions upon millions to create new studios to craft games that remain exclusive to Xbox and never touch PC in a million years, while also doing the exact same for PC, wehre those games never touch Xbox. To them that goes against the whole "play anywhere" ideal, it would also require more money, time and effort and with the way things have been going for them I don't think they are in for a 5-10 year wait period to see if that split idea bear fruit.

Also how are PC games to be kept separate from consoels when all PC games are third party?. PC has no first party studio because no one owns an open platform like it. Valve makes their own games, same with Blizz, bethesda, EA, Ubisoft etc, all of them have their own stores and clients on PC but none of them are first party.

The other thing to consider is that not eevryone wants to game on PC, just like how not everyone wants to game on a console either. People want multiple options rather than a singular one. 

About that last part. What is MS to even begin to do with PC if all it makes are first party games for Xbox and they are to be kept on the console?.

In other words - "We're only interested in the integrated hardware/software business.......unless you mean smartphones, cuz then we're all about selling whatever, wherever."

Pretty sure everyone saw this coming, Not that it matters much considering every single one of Nintendo's consoles/handhelds get emulated at some point.

Maybe you don't know it, or you have decided to ignore it, but Steam Sales are not mandatory. Valve/Steam sends a form to publishers asking them if they want to take part in their sales, which of their games want to put on sale and which discount they want to apply to each game.

So no, Nintendo wouldn't be forced to sell their games $30 a few months after release or anything like that.

I already explained that MS has no plans to do that and out of the big 3, it's the most expensive for their pockets as well. They don't see the point in wasting 5-10 years to see if it all bears fruit (if you're the only one out of the 3 spending more money on two plats, would you take such a huge risk after losing this much, 3 gens in a row?).

You forget that I also mentioned that there are those who aren't interested in consoles like there are those not interested in PC. There are those not interested in the PS4, X1 and Switch/Wii U, so chances are those not interested in those systems end up not buying into those system exclusives, same with PC, but I'm sure there are those out there who would love to play said games on their system of choice.

I'd love for MS to make a ton of PC exclusives only found on PC, but that's not really going to happen if ever, so their current objective is to make games for both because it suits their scope and budget as well.

You seem to have avoided the PC exclusive part though. I mean if you want console exclusives to stay exclusive, then I imagine the same for PC as well?.

Even if they aren't forced into it they will either get their games sold at a massive discount on Kinguin ala currency manipulation, or nobody will buy their games because they will be considered too expensive.