Someone has to say...Nintendo needs a phone

[baloofarsan]

Ouroboros24 said:

OdinHades said:

Nintendo isn't able to build a good phone. That would need tons of R&D, patents and whatnot. All things Nintendo doesn't have. Even their money is rather short for something like that. I mean, just look how a giant like Microsoft is struggling to compete with Apple and Samsung. They finally caught up with the Lumia 930, but they needed years and years of software engineering and they had to buy Nokia, which cost more than what Nintendo has in the bank to achieve just that. And while the products are of good quality now, the sales are ridiculously low compared to their competitors.

I know Nintendo can't.  But the combination of that machine will be out there some day. 

There are many smartphone producers that can help Nintendo with the phone technology. 

http://www.techinasia.com/2013-list-new-asian-homegrown-smartphone-brands/

They do not have to be bigger than Samsung or Apple. Nintendo will still be niche but with some of the functionality of the big brands.