TheSource on 17 March 2013
The problem with what Pachter is saying is royalties. Without a platform not only does Nintendo not collect royalties, they pay them to other platform holders. Even when only 50 million third party games sell on Nintendo systems (which is low), it's $400 million in almost pure profit.
Nintendo software on phones and tablets might sell 3,4,5 billion copies per year - but only at $0.99, with the hw companies getting a cut. So it's still less revenue than now. It will be worth it if they can sell 20-30 billion units of software / $20-30b of revenue in sw though.
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