DanneSandin said:
Soundwave said:
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?
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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.
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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...
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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.
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I'm just curious how a 3DS port would work on a tablet... Would you divede the screen in two, kind of like how the 2DS functions? I think it would be a smarter move to port over some Wii U games, rather than 3DS games. The 3DS is still making money for Nintendo, so why would they wanna cut into those profits? Better port over Wii U games and make the tablet function WITH the Wii U; that way you won't take away sales from the 3DS, and you would boost the software sales of the Wii U and even potantially the Wii U itself.
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It wouldn't really cut into profits though it would just offer more ways to play the same game. Like MH3U on Wii U doesn't cut into MH3U's profits on the 3DS ... it's the same game, Capcom makes the same money, it's just up to the consumer which version suits their needs better.
On a tablet I think I'd probably just rework the layout so that it's just one screen, with some secondary touch functions. But it probably wouldn't require a ton of work, many 3DS games simply use the second screen for superfulous functionality.
