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Gamerace on 02 August 2013
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Viper1 said:
Gamerace said:
I say all classic Nintendo titles ought to be on mobile but not new titles.

Why? Because they already are. Tons of people are playing classic Nintendo titles (and PS1) on mobile devices now. Nintendo might as well be making some money from it.


Keep in mind that they also sell their classic titles on their own digital service.   Porting over to iOS would harm their own service and cause a serious price discrepency.  

Those games are already on iOS/Android - for free.  There's no greater price discrepency than that.   Ignoring it doesn't change the fact.  Clearly people want to play those classic titles still.  Many are very well suited to mobile devices and it's money that's Nintendo is leaving on the table.

Whether Nintendo officially puts them on mobile or not people are playing them on mobile.  But I'm sure a good chunk of those people would gladly pay $.99 or $1.99 to play them if they had that option.   As long as Nintendo isn't putting current games on mobile, it's not competing with WiiU/3DS.

If that causes a price discrepancy between mobile on what they are changing on their own systems, then clearly, they are charging too much.   If they want higher prices then add something (hd, new levels) to justify the price and sell those exclusively on WiiU/3DS.