Nintendo:That Bringing Their Games To Smartphones Etc Decreases Brand Value

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RolStoppable said:

Train wreck said:
haha I see. Its odd how angry birds can originate on cell phones, is now getting royalties out the ass from licensing and is second to Nintendo own franchises (in the west) on the 3DS and will top all software in terms of 3rd party titles for the Wii U and 3DS again with angry birds star wars. Seems like a lot of brand expansion on their part.

The simple answer is that Rovio doesn't make its own hardware and thus has nothing to lose by making Angry Birds available on other platforms.

Software sales drive hardware sales, its not the other way around.  And Software contributes more to a game companies bottom line and top line, not hardware.  So with Rovio's successful software, they do not need to bother with hardware especially when there is a device that sells hundreds of millions a year on its own.  I can  easliy understand people's willingness to question Nintendo's laziness in their inability to create a Nintendo game that utilizes smartphone touch screens without interfearing (or even potentially acting as a gateway) to their button based handheld and console counterparts.  If Nintendo feels that their titles are of value, then said value should be able to hold and transfer to any medium.  All their value doesnt have to be equal, the smartphone game they create doesnt have to be a mario game. It speaks to more greed on Nintendo's end than anything else.