What influence did Mario Galaxy or Animal Crossing have on any first party games from Sony or Microsoft? This is like comparing the ticket sales of a Pixar movie to a movie like Furious 7.
The truth is as a gaming community we need Microsoft to turn this thing into a race again. Sony is crushing them and has no competition. Nintendo isn't interested in competing with either.
Nintendo outsold both other consoles, fukk you mean breh?
Sales is what drives innovation, if you ain't selling shyt, you don't have the space to do new shyt. Reason why Nintendo can afford to take Ls with third parties is because the Wii and DS did numbers, and they did numbers because they put out enjoyable games. Am I a Nintendo fan? No. But I recognize that they won the first half of 2015 (and late 2014) gaming with shyt like Bayonetta 2, Splatoon, Super Smash Bros, the Yoshi and Kirby joints
The point is, them as almost exclusively a one studio sourced gaming company is putting out superior first parties than both combined. That being said, it's hard to still consider them as part as the general war when you get to console gaming, as consoles are by no means Nintendo's selling point. I personally want a company with the same initiative as Nintendo to come in the hardcore gaming and at the very least light a fire under Sony/Microsoft
And yeah this goes for Sony too, they just got two straight years of nothing but boo boo out the way, if 2016 doesn't fulfill on these E3 promises, they trash too. They just happened to be picking on a retarded kid, but now Microsoft read some books, got in the gym, and they genuinely back in the fight.