You're assuming there are third parties to give microtransactions and DLC to get money off of.With a strategy like this, Nintendo would have to screw up incredibly hard to not get third party support.
- Ports are more likely to be profitable. They can sell less while making the publishers more money.
- Publishers make more money when consumers buy the NX version, so publishers prefer to market the NX version. Selling 2 million on NX and 1 million on PS4 is way more profitable than selling 1 million on NX and 2 million on PS4.
- Consumers are less likely to buy the NX port if it's gimped, so publishers will make sure it includes all DLC options.
- Publishers still make their standard amount of money off DLC and microtransactions.
There's really no financial reasons to not give the NX extreme support, and the third parties would stop the system from having poor sales. They'd actively prefer it succeeded over PS4 and XBO.
Nintendo has a dwindling fanbase and you'd have to assume charging for online will make it even smaller.Yes charging for online will have a negative impact on sales, but the positive impact from 3rd party support would be much larger. Plus it'd be 2016. Everyone is charging for online and Nintendo can get away with it even if their servers suck.
8 dollars to Sony with their (Nintendo) software consistently selling 10s of millions if not more vs their software selling 5 million max (Which is the current limit for Wii U sales).If the cut was $8 on a retail sale, the publisher is making about $27 per disc. So every sale on PS4 gives them $27 while ever sale on NX gives them $35. No freaking way would publishers be making 3rd party exclusives at launch, I'm not saying that, but they would certainly people bought their games on Nintendo's system.
I'll say it again, hardware makes no sense unless you can make a profit off of the hardware or licensing money. Nintendo is in a position where neither is possible.Hardware makes no sense unless you can make a profit, period. No reason to artificially restrict that to just two options.
