Nothing the ONLY way nntendo would stop making consoles is if they went completly bankrupt. They would never develop for a competitor

LOL you must be too young to remember SEGA in their heyday. They trotted out the same line after the Saturn died in the womb. "Sonic will never play on anything but SEGA HW!" They proclaimed. We all know how that turned out. Thankfully Ninty is in good shape financially, and we won't have to see what happens. Perhaps I'm just oldschool but having a company focused on gaming always seems more exciting than being a fanboy for some faceless megacorp who really only give half a shit about gaming in the first place.

Man do I miss SEGA- they kept Ninty from turning into the touchy feely company they seem to natural gravitate to. I guess I would say I'm a Nintendo fan simply because they are less sucky than the others, but back in the day I always thought they survived too much on crappy kids games. SEGA had everything right except for a really dumb ass Japanese leadership team. If only SoA had been in control I doubt MS would have ever entered the game what with the DC using WinCE and having a great online backbone. 

Don't get me wrong I love how accessable Nintendo games are. NSMB Wii is a great example. But SEGA was a gaming company that was interested in current ("hardcore") gamers.

Frankly we don't need 2 HD consoles that are essentially identicle from two companies who have show a total disreguard for innovation- look at the controllers, both should be in a museum. PC people have been joking about these for longer than most members have been alive. SEGA had some balls, which I see little of outside Nintendo these days. A real shame.

Sorry for the OT rant.

I wonder last I heard Nintendo was climbing in value I remember it being worth 6-billion dollars during the GameCube era and I believe I heard a little while ago that the company was now worth over 9-billion and climbing towards 10-billion. So how many massive losses would Nintendo have to make in a row to actually fail. I believe what was it Microsoft lost 400-mill on the X-Box. So that would indicate Nintendo could fail as bad as the origional X-Box for almost a century. Nintendo could survive 25 generations before going bankrupt. I highly doubt that any failures could lead them to leaving the hardware industry.

Judging from Nintendo's history of always turning a profit I doubt Nintendo could ever loose enough money to abandon the hardware industry. Even the GameCube at 99.99$ was still turning a profit for Nintendo. Some said that if Nintendo left the hardware industry that share holders would force them to make games for competitors. Remember Nintendo was origionally a toy manufacturer and Entrepenuer. If Nintendo left gaming they could easily move into manufacturing toy's, card games, books, movies and a wide array of other products based on their existing properties.

The computer is the only platform that would suit Nintendo's philosophy of designing hardware to suit software. On consoles, they would be restricted by a former competitor's licensing fees and architecture. But on computers they would be free to do anything they want.

this is exactly my thoughts if nintendo stopped making consoles they would make games for teh pc cause the pc would be the only hardware that could handle nintendos games as they are now.

Microsoft lost ~$4B on the XBox and ~$9B total in their gaming/entertainment devision.

I thought it was only ~$6.5B?  360 lost less than Xbox 1 (~$2.5B iirc), and now it's actually making the division profitable.  Or are you adding pre-Xbox figures for the E&S Div (which was like WebTV and Mac Office?)?

I was looking at a cummulative from 2000 - 2009, so it is missing the last few quarters, and I thought the rest was from R&D for the XBox. Either way, that is why I said ~$9B for the devision, not the two systems as I know the Zune is part of the devision.

Melee for the GC was T-rated.

Brawl for the Wii is T-rated.

Mike from Morgantown

Seriously, back to the OP, Nintendo has figured out how to make money, so if it ever got out of the hardware business, it would probably produce for the system or systems that sold the most in all markets. Right now, that would probably refer more to Sony than Microsoft since Nintendo is a Japanese company.

Ironically, most game journalists thought that Nintendo should take the "Sega route" after the Game Cube. They looked at sales rather than the fact that Nintendo was actually profitable selling the "purple lunch box."

Mike from Morgantown