padib said:
Soundwave said:
GB and GBA never had to deal with 5/6 year old kids getting their first taste of gaming on an iPad or their parents iPhone either though. They had it so much easier in those days.
This is a very, very different world today. When the GBA was around basically the only thing you could do on a phone other than make calls and black & white texts was play a crappy game of Snake. A tablet was something that only really existed in Star Trek.
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That's true. What market do you suggest Nintendo could successfully and profitably target?
I ask because, as far as I'm concerned, Nintendo is best at attracting those playing on tablets. So even if the competition is fiercer on that front, I strongly believe Nintendo are the ones able to effectively compete (which they aren't doing at the moment).
I say this because I suspect you will propose Nintendo go after Sony and MS' market, which is not and has never been their strength.
My view on it is they compete fiercely with tablets and possibly succeed, or choose to compete with Sony and MS in their markets and decisively fail.
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I've suggested they make a heavily customized Android tablet (w/buttons) that only plays apps/software from their own eShop (similar to what Amazon does with the Kindle tablet).
I would strongly urge them that they must get much stronger Western management at NOA and NOE and Iwata must listen to them more often.
Maybe exerting so much effort to sell hardware simply isn't worth it any more either to be honest. The hardware is just a box to play Mario, as Yamauchi said, if they can make a extremely low cost, bare bones console for $100 say and are willing to let go of the $50-$60 retail-focused market for a more digital only future ... I could see them having some success in that avenue.
Honestly there is no simple magic bullet here I think. This is a tough market, Nintendo must be much, much smarter in their decision making and hardware emphasis from now on. Just making a great Mario game isn't good enough anymore.