Reuters: Nintendo Faces End Of Era After 3DS Flop

[gumby_trucker]

also, let me copy my response to the article about share prices dropping:

asking Nintendo to make a phone is like asking Nokia to make a handheld, and we all know how that worked out!
It's simply too far away from their current area of expertise to guarantee such a product makes an impact.
People would buy loads of Nintendophones at start, but how many would continue buying them if they didn't end up also being fantastic phones!?
If they were merely average phones would they honestly still pose a serious threat to the iPhone??

Asking Nintendo to make a phone is also basically the same as telling Nintendo to go third party, another thing no one wants!
What kind of phone do you expect them to make? One with its own proprietary OS and all? That level of investment would only mean they have considerably less man-power to make the games that earn them the big bucks! Hell, they could barely make half decent OSs for Wii and 3DS, let alone a complete smartphone OS on the level of what Apple has!
Dedicating the resources required to make something on that level is only likely to ruin the company...

Which means the remaining option is Nintendo developing on an existing platform like Android, ie: an open platform which they do not control and where anyone can publish games without Nintendo's permission! Say goodbye to royalties for third party published games! Nintendo may still sell you the phone, but they would essentially be just another third party developer on it... think about that!