if after the gamecube, nintnendo decided to stop making consoles, who do you think nintendo would develop for... microsoft, or sony?

do you think nintendo would develop exclusively for one of those platforms, or do you think nintendo would develop for both platforms?

do you think microsoft would pay for nintendo developing for their system, or do you think nintendo would develop for whichever system was actually better...??

i need to know the answers

The one that lets them be the most creative, I think.

They would probably just make handheld games or be like Sega and go multiplat on most games.

Here I'll make it simple. if Nintendo stopped making consoles they would stop making games. Miyamoto and Iwata both stated the day Nintendo stops making consoles is the day Nintendo stops making games.

If you put that logic out and went with the hypothetical scenario that Nintendo did choose to make games for a competitors platform, Nintendo would probubly choose Microsoft exclusively, due to its constant struggle with Sony. Microsoft already has games released on DS and I think Nintendo would return the favour and release titles exclusively for 360!

Depends on why exactly they decided to stop making consoles...

I think if Nintendo chose not to release a console after the GC (which would have been really stupid on their part), then they would have focused exclusively on the handheld market for the time being with the DS, and they would have waited out the current gen of HD consoles so that they could...

A: See which company comes out on top or is potentially the most viable to develop for, and/or...

B: Focus on their next system, which would set itself apart from what their HD counterparts are offering by way of motion controls and other unique gameplay features.

Either way, we'd still have basically ended up with the "Wii", because that was the direction Nintendo has been heading it for almost the past 2 generations.

nintendo lost money on the gamecube ... sega lost money on the dreamcast ... Sega stopped hardware ... if nintendo stopped hardware ... i would have loved a sega/ninendo console, best of both worlds

I think they almost earned as much profit on the Gamecube as Sony did on the PS2.

I hope this hypothetical isn't based on the fallacy that Nintendo was at risk during the Gamecube era. One look at Nintendo's financials throughout the past ten years and you can see they were more profitable than Sony's games division every year but one since the inception of the Playstation brand.

If for whatever reason they did not continue their home console brand then I think they would have focused exclusively on the handheld market for now, I don't think we are ever going to see Nintendo making games for anyone else.

They did? O_o