Someone has to say...Nintendo needs a phone

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Ka-pi96 said:

Ouroboros24 said:

tak13 said:

no way!mobile gaming...the rather,smartphone gaming(facebook gaming is disambiguous from big success to an easy fail, see Zynga) is popular because games cost 2-5 dollars and some are free

Today it is 2-5 dollars, tomorrow it may be 34.99.  A serious gaming machine fitted like a normal phone with development cost like a triple A sony title.  What's to stop that from happening within the next 5 years?  If not the next 5 years, the next 10.  There will be someday a machine like this and the way things are going, it will not be nintendo.  They don't have the DNA to create a phone like Samsung, at least we don't see that side of them. 

People wouldn't buy mobile games anymore if they were to jump up to 34.99. They never would have bought them in the first place at that price and now that they are used to the low price it just isn't possible.

People don't seem to realise how unpredictable casuals are. The majority wouldn't even spend a cent on a mobile game.