Khalil's_Black_Excellence
The King of Fighters
Nintendo is the only system that the 1st party games are the most popular on.
Everything else it's 3rd party
Clearly 1st party games matter to a certain extent.
But a company could technically never release a 1st party game and if they managed to have the best system for 3rd party games or some other reason or reasons to have people play and purchase their system they could do just fine.
They can survive, but not thrive. Pretty much the Xbox motto. "Hey guys....we're still you know."
And keep overly fellating Nintendo, like they don't box themselves out the third party game by not having hardware up to par for the average third party game to even run on their system.