Someone has to say...Nintendo needs a phone

[Ouroboros24]

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.

This is where I see Nintendo is a shining light in it's policy to not make games for phones.  But do you really see Nintendo winning this battle of format of being a games only machine?  Are we going to revert back to where phones didn't play games?  In the foreseeable future, that's not going to happen.  More and more development will be placed on triple A titles for iOS, and why not?  We haven't seen that app to do that, but you hear stupid things succeeding all the time. 

Customer's now are used to the low price of little minigames, but you can't deny that the customer are just trained monkeys when it comes to forking over more money for something they see value in.  And certainly, it will not be in drones, not at first, but it will grow like cancer, until it is the norm.  It may suck, but it's a possibility that shouldn't be ignored.  Doom!