Nice to see you stuck around after all this time. Cheers.

Nintendo are absolutely not intending to drop out of hardware manufacturing.

They make a LOT of money on boxed goods, and they KNOW they'd become irrelevant in the game space quickly if they didn't attempt pushing the envelope on methods of interactivity.

What will be interesting is to see what their next move is.

It's a bit of an open question if mobile becomes a huge success for them, especially if the console NX doesn't really do that great.

They could continue to make dedicated portable devices, but could opt to go multiplat everywhere else, so in that sense they would be getting the best of both worlds in a way (still make hardware, but their IPs have the broadest userbase access).

They may leave the hardware business eventually, but obviously not just yet with the release of the NX looming.

Nah, Nintendo is not leaving the hardware space.They know very well that what gives their good reputation is the actual games made for consoles, and thus leaving it behind would be a big mistake.I mean, lets say Nintendo went full mobile today.Short term speaking, they would amass a gigantic fortune, there is no doubt about it.But in the long term they would just lose influence and their IPs would suffer for it, since the games they make for mobile would be more of "mini games" rather than full fledged games, they would lose their fanbase and as we all know casuals are fickle.Not only that, Nintendo would eventually lose the reputation of making excellent games and well, one thing will led to another.

As I already said on other posts, the best would be to release a mobile game here and there, once every 6 months in my opinion so that you dont flood the market and make the launch an special ocassion every time it happens, and keep their focus on the dedicated market.That would be for the best.

I love how the OP bumped this thread as if something he says has already happened when nothing actually happened.

I dont see Nintendo abandoning hardware at all, they expanding their business, not shirking and they dont leaving hardware market.

Smash bros. on tablets...
imagine that at EVO lmao...

its quite simple in raw revenue pokemon go will make as much money just in the USA as the best selling pokemon before world wide in 1200 days ( pokemon red/blue )

Don't think Nintendo's shareholders will share that POV though. 

Clearly there is mounting evidence that Nintendo's IPs if anything have been held back by their hardware from reaching a wider audience. 

There's a lot of pressure now on NX to be a big hit, otherwise it will become an open question.