How Nintendo could and should go Mobile

[DanneSandin]

Anfebious said:

DanneSandin said:

fleischr said:

Anfebious said:
Simple, release those games and Super Mario Bros. Charge for jumping a little higher and BAM, there you have it, unlimited money!

Can't really tell if you're being serious or not...

Regarding his history, I'm assuming he's joking around..

In a normal circumstance it would be a joke but this one was a reference. There was an investor that said the exact same thing, Mario should go mobile and should charge for "jumping higher" he sounded like it was it's wet dream.

So what would happen if Nintendo decided to put Brain Age in smartphones? Investors would keep pestering them to release Mario on smartphones too. You can't just send Brain Age and Nintendogs to smartphones without expecting investors to demand Mario on it too. Imagine if those two where successful, the logical thing to do then would be to start sending Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda to smartphones. There is no way out once you start, it's like a drug, ask Square Enix.

Yeah, well, that investor is obviously pretty stupid and greedy as fuck.

While investors might keep on nagging on Nintendo to put Mario on smartphones, it wouldn't be much more different than the nagging of today, with the exception that they'd be making money of the few mobile games they actually would have released. Nintendo would have to explain that Mario doesn't fit smartphones, because 1) bad controls (which leads to damaging that property, since it's always had arguably the best controls in all of video gaming), 2) bad controls leads to less sales across ALL platforms, 3) which leads to less revenue, and 4) the smartphone audience is a different audience than the Mario gamers that already exists on Nintendo's own consoles. In reality, I don't think the situation would change THAT much with regards to investors pestering Nintendo.