Should Nintendo develop a phone?

[Joelcool7]

Viper1 said:

snakenobi said:

Viper1 said:

snakenobi said:

It wont be able to compete

todays smartphone market is either android or iOS,and ninty could only utilize android or build their own operating system

Incidently, Nintendo has created an OS before.  Called ES.  Guess who bought the rights to ES from Nintendo in 2008?  Google.  They now co-own the copyright.

but how does that help nintendo?

Outside of obviously working closely with Google on OS projects, I can't say.  It was more an interesting factoid than any insinuation that a phone with Google is plausible.

Man I bet Google has this idea in the back of their heads right now. I mean Google just made the biggest aquisition in phone tech history buying Motorola. They are going to start manufacturing Google Phones. Now think with that OS and their history they would probably love to make a Nintendo Phone availible.

It would be a very smart decision for Google now Nintendo themselves wouldn't have to invest much, maybe just make the EShop availible on the phone. It would definatly get the support of all those investors wanting Nintendo in the phone market and it wouldn't be much risk to Nintendo themselves. if the phone failed Nintendo wouldn't take a hit really and all profit made would be risk free,

Or as others pointed out Nintendo could make a video chat program and maybe txting program for the 3DS. So that when your in a hot spot you could call other users and chat with them. However the Skype idea is insaine and out of the question, Microsoft probably would not liscense Skype to Nintendo and Nintendo would be dammed sure that Microsoft software wasn't on their hardware directly.

Notice even when Microsoft released software on DS/GBA it was always done through a third party. I can't see Nintendo putting a Microsoft technology directly into their hardware.

Either way I think Nintendo entering the phone market is much more logical then developing software for iOS devices or even Android Market But even more logical then building their own phone with say Google would be for Nintendo to put a chat feature on 3DS along with a txting feature. These features would be huge hits!