| supernihilist said: markets dont fade away like that, thing is casuals have moved on to mobile, but will they stay? for how long until this fad has gone? now its time to stand still and strong cause good times will be back before you think |
Unless people stop using smartphones/tablets, it's never going to reverse.
Everytime I go into a Best Buy there's 3-4x more kids around the iPad section than there is in the 3DS section.
When I'm at an airport I see 4-5x more kids playing on their own/or their parents tablet/phone than I do them playing a DS/3DS/PSP/Vita.
The world has changed.
Unfortunately for Nintendo this is hitting them very hard.
Smartphones/tablets are dominating in areas Nintendo was relying upon to differeniate themselves from Sony/MS. Cute/colorful games (Angry Birds, Plants Vs. Zombies), easy to play arcade style games (Candy Crush Saga, Flappy Bird, Cut the Rope), and casual games (a billion different Brain Training knock offs, pet sims, etc.) are absolutely the types of games people love to play on mobile (not Call of Duty or Halo). It's one of the reasons Nintendo is under so much pressure from investors to make mobile games, because investors see the similarities there.
Even Nintendo's foray into Quality of Life products might find itself under pre-emptive assault here, as Apple, Samsung and others are readying huge product launches into the health/wellness sector. Apple recently hired a bunch of health gurus and Nike employees.
A smartphone/tablet is not a fad device, it's a life changing device that every household will have going forward, just like the home telephone, television, VCR/DVD/Blu-Ray player, PC/laptop.
