Dunno but this gen has been very sad. With a stellar lineup of games the GC has failed to clearly win the 2nd market position (perhaps it will sell more but I think that GC sales should be the double of the Xbox ones) and that says a lot about Nintendo's actual position.
Sure they still have benefits and that they bussiness model is profitable as hell...But step by step Nintendo is losing protagonism in the market and I fear we end seing a SEGA - 2.
The fact is that the way they do their business is the way of a 3rd party. They only care about their products selling and nothing more. Userbase is no longer a matter of importance and so it isn't the sales of 3rd parties (see how bad they have driven the RE4 marketing; at least in Europe).
So in my opinion the question is not if they have to go 3rd party or not because the benefits but if they would loose anything going this way.
Nintendo could be wise and could sign a no-fees contract with Sony for the next gen. Nintendo gets free publishing rights (no fees to Sony) and SOny gets the best software company exclusive to them. Release a special controller for Nintendo games and if you want to still do hardware let's keep in the handheld space.
Nintendo is one of my 3-essential companies along with Capcom and Konami so having all them on the same system would be a dream. A dream called SNES2
Sure they still have benefits and that they bussiness model is profitable as hell...But step by step Nintendo is losing protagonism in the market and I fear we end seing a SEGA - 2.
The fact is that the way they do their business is the way of a 3rd party. They only care about their products selling and nothing more. Userbase is no longer a matter of importance and so it isn't the sales of 3rd parties (see how bad they have driven the RE4 marketing; at least in Europe).
So in my opinion the question is not if they have to go 3rd party or not because the benefits but if they would loose anything going this way.
Nintendo could be wise and could sign a no-fees contract with Sony for the next gen. Nintendo gets free publishing rights (no fees to Sony) and SOny gets the best software company exclusive to them. Release a special controller for Nintendo games and if you want to still do hardware let's keep in the handheld space.
Nintendo is one of my 3-essential companies along with Capcom and Konami so having all them on the same system would be a dream. A dream called SNES2