Yes. Simply because the have a history of more hardware innovation than any other country. Also can you imagine how much more expensive hardware and software would be in this generation without nintendo driving everyone else to cut prices. At the same time it is interesting to think about the new zelda using the full ps3 capabilities and being able to use the wii and nunchuck to control ratchet and clank games.

So long as all their games went to one other console/one other handheld, and they didn't spread them around. Nintendo wouldn't be the kind of company to multiplat.

They wouldnt be Nintendo anymore without the HW and who is going to inovate as they have?

Considering what they've done with gaming's interface, yes it would.

I'd also add that being able to make the hardware tailored for their software is a big part of why their software is as good as it is.

If there was no Nintendo hardware.... there would be no Wii.

Which is different from the PS3/360.

Really it's the on hardware manufacturer out of the three i'd deem needed.

If sony didn't make the PS3 they'd be 360. 360 there'd be PS3... either way, the games that would of been on one would end up on the other.

Or if they both were gone, they'd likely show up on the Wii.


If Nintendo wasn't making hardware... The Wii line would of never been born... nor likely would Natal or the Sony wand.

personally it wouldn't be such a bad thing (from this gamers perspective)...there'd be less reason for me to buy multiplats...all the games I like on one system...just like the old days (stares off into space and starts reminiscing about simpler times...)

heh...there was a time, prewii when I honestly thought it was about to happen!

Why wouldn't every company just develop for the PC and stop making consoles all together then? Same idea.

Nintendo getting out of the hardware business would, at this point, be the worst thing that could possibly happen to gaming, as an industry and as an art form. No one else has made any meaningful innovations in multiple generations, and while Nintendo fell into that trap as well (a gen later than the others), it's also the only one to have gotten out of it at this point. No one else is doing anything but pretty pictures, and it's killing gaming.

Let's say that Nintendo went Sega back in the SNES era: No Playstation since it originated from a work between Sony and Nintendo.

What is it that causes deja vu? It's a misalignment of some synapses in the brain? I could swear - literally - that I've read this topic, and every reply in it, at least once before. I wrote an article after reading it, I think. It never got posted though.

Nintendo's ability to build hardware around software ideas is one of the most important and long-standing institutions in video games. I don't trust Sony and Microsoft - or Sega, looking that far back - to innovate player interaction in the same way Nintendo does.

I wouldn't qui gaming, but God, we would be missing out on so much.