Topic: Why should Nintendo go third party?

Also Panasonic, NEC and SNK.

Although to be fair Nintendo has some pretty impressive IP. A lot of fairly large companies could exist purely on the sort of revenue Nintendo could make selling plushies. That combined with the talent they have I don't think Nintendo has much of a chance of fading into near-insignificance in gaming. It just doesn't make sense to drop out of the console game given how much that can pay off when they get it right.

One scenario if Nintendo goes third party is that they'll be like Sega. Far smaller market cap. Far less presence. Far less revenues.

But the other scenario is that a game like Mario Kart will sells 10's of millions on the other consoles, making it bigger than Call of Duty and GTA by a long margin.

So the reasoning is that with powerful enough franchises, it can reach far greater audiences by going third party.

Nintendo's main reasoning against that idea is that Mario Kart or any other game is great only because they can design it around their hardware's strengths.

Even better. NSMB U sold almost 4 million.

Until you can convince Nintendo that they can make a lot of money in maintaining their current revenue at several billion software only and that making money off hardware is useless you aren't seeing them going third party.

And only this, because it wouldn't make as much money for them.

By going 3rd party they would have to sell 4 times more games to just make it even. With 4 mln copies of NSMBU sold, it is equal to selling 16 mln on other platforms if they would go third party.

And good luck with that, when 5 mln copies is "unreasonable" by "gamers" and for publishers it's not enough or flat out fail. It will get worse with time.

I hope they will never go third party, because then the world would lose GAMES and gaming would be only about dying, walking through doors or QTE only

Never going to happen. Unless cloud gaming becomes a thing.

Oh I hope not. I am ok with Downloading games but Cloud gaming sounds terrible idea (except maybe MMOs)

Wouldn't it be the opposite since MMO's would have to render through the cloud the same game for mutiple people and that would use a ton of bandwith. I'm assuming that PS Now will only be used for single player games.

they should go somewhat third party because we have no sports games. that's pretty much all i want from the third-parties, sports games.

MMOs could benefit from Cloud gaming by giving developers the most control over their worlds and evolving everything. Other multiplayer games might get the same benefit. I don't really like the idea of not being able to play certain games because of server maintenance or internet issues. Basically wouldn't be able to play anything during peak hours.

So you think Nintendo should go 3rd Party because you want sports titles which Nintendo doesn't make too many of? I don't understand...

we need 2K sports and Konami to make us some sports games. This may be unrealistic but I hope EA comes back and makes their games for us too.