IsawYoshi said:
Soundwave said:
No one's buying a Nintendo phone, the OS wouldn't be able to measure up with what people expect. A shoddy OS on a console is OK because it's not a central part of people's lives, but their smartphones are basically their all purpose hub for their business/social life, people have a total freak out at Apple when one of their apps (the Maps one) doesn't work properly for a couple of weeks. Adults would lose their minds if their smart phone had even 1/4 of the issues the Wii U OS does.
Beyond that, Apple would outmarket the living crap out of them if they felt they were any kind of serious threat. That's just not a fight Nintendo wants any part of I don't think.
I'd rather see Nintendo allign themselves with one of Sony or MS (pick the best offer) for a few years, making games for their home console, while getting their support for a future Nintendo handheld + a metric ton of cash/royalty kick back as part of the deal.
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It's possible for Nintendo to make a good OS. It's just a question if they will understand how important it is. Nintendo can team up with mobile companies to get going.
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They'd have to work with Google and basically use the Android framework.
A smartphone cannot be a toy or even sniff of being a toy. People won't touch it with 50 foot pole. And apps are problematic too ... Blackberry got killed for not having them.
It's just a fight I don't think Nintendo would pick. It's too far out of their element.
If market erosion to the traditional handheld market continues (and I think it will ... just way too many kids these days who are using tablets/smartphones are their first gaming devices nowadays), I suppose it would be a very interesting conundrum if Microsoft walked into Nintendo and plopped a giant ton of cash to make a Windows gaming phone with slide out controls or something.
