I dont think the mobile games are going to do anything for their brand awareness in terms of hard numbers. I think its ludicious to belive that the mobile devision will act as a 'gateway' to Nintendos own hardware and software.

Your mass market mobile gamers are not going to fork out the money to buy a piece of hardware just to pay again for the original version of a mobile game they are playing. They will remain content with the mobile game knowing they dont need to pay big bucks for an experience they dont need.

Ideally, mobile would help spread Nintendo IPs in a manner to attract more people to their hardware and software. But i dont see this being the case at all. 

Yeah I agree with you, people aren't magically going to fork over $200+ and $40-$60 a game just because the liked a mobile version of a game. Like how many people who play Angry Birds bought the 3DS version ... like maybe 1/100?

iOS/Google Play may not have the "real" Pokemon, but if that Pokemon Go game provides some good fun, for a lot of people that will be good enough considering it's likely free.

Nintendo knows this though. They're doing this for the money, plain and simple, saying it's a "gateway" to their hardware is a nice PR spin, but it comes to down to cold, hard dollars. If they can get some gateway users of course I'm sure they'll be happy with that, but it's not like they're going to donate the billions of dollars they could make from smartphone titles alone to charity. Of course they have thought about that. 

Mobile could very well become Nintendo's *primary* source of revenue in a few years, not some secondary stream. 

Of course Nintendo will generate money from their mobile games too. But like I said, the primary motivation is not to get the money from mobile users, but to get people to buy Nintendo hardware because that's where the real big money is. Besides, mobile can't really work as a backup plan for a company the size of Nintendo; the average spending of individual users on mobile gaming is pretty low.

Regardless of the above, a poorly selling console doesn't have to be that detrimental to Nintendo's bottom line. Things are only so bad for Nintendo this generation because both their home console and handheld hardware sucked and had expensive components. And no, Nintendo will not exit mobile gaming, because the way smart devices are used, they are going to reach more people than even the TV in the future. Putting videos of their games for dedicated gaming hardware into their mobile games should be an effective way for Nintendo to inform people about their premium products. And overcoming the initial hurdle of getting people to download such an application shouldn't be that hard to overcome for Nintendo, thanks to their IP strength.

As for the question if people will buy additional products based on an experience they had, that really shouldn't be a problem. For example, video games that are based on movie/cartoon/anime licenses have constantly sold throughout history. The quality of such games has always been questionable, but that didn't stop them from succeeding. The principle at work here is that people want more of something they like and they are willing to pay for it. In the specific case of Pokémon, one of the main attractions of the IP is the process of collecting. That aspect easily translates to something like Pokémon Go, so people who get addicted to it will want a more fleshed out experience and they are going to pay for it.