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Soundwave on 17 January 2014
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DanneSandin said:
Soundwave said:
DanneSandin said:

Yup. I've never denied that; the market has shrunk - but I still think there's a place for dedicated handheld consoles. But they might not sell more than 50m LDT.

I'm curious how Nintendo will tackle the mobile market... Making a phone and tablet of their own? Is it is right now, you can't play Nintendo games on smart devices, because those devices sucks too much - but maybe Nintendo will come up with something that will change that?


There's nothing they can do to combat this problem head on. 

What I think may happen though is they will make their own gaming tablet and try to have that coexist with a cheaper 3DS. 

If they can squeeze 10 million units from both product lines annually, that's 20 million portables sold a year ... which suddenly doesn't seem so bad. 

I think that if/when Nintendo releases a gaming tablet it'll work with the WII U, and they'll release a Wii U sku without the gamepad, and you'll be able to use your Nintendo Tablet instead. But this would mean that they'd need to develop games for 3 different kind of platforms, and they can barelt keep up with two consoles...


I think honestly at this stage Wii U is almost like small potatoes for Nintendo. They'll ride it out and give it the token Mario Kart + Smash + Zelda + whatever else is in development for it and let that be that. 

What they need is a new bonafied hit product line. Wii U is never going to be the money maker Nintendo wants it to be. 

I suspect a Nintendo tablet that can run 3DS games in HD resolution along with legacy games and even some scaled down Wii U ports (DKC: TF, Mario Kart 8, etc.) could perform well for them (within reasonable expectations, don't expect an iPad killer or something ridiculous) without neccessarily demanding completely new software development. 

Something like that could work.