| Blob said: I see everyone dissmissing this idea here but to me this is what Nintendo needs to do if they want to maintain a handheld presence. Everyone has a phone on them at all times, imagine if it was also a legitimate gaming device that played pokemon too. This would be huge in japan, swaying third party support there, and I suspect that if sony decides to give the handheld space another shot they will release a phone/handheld hybrid. |
Everyone has a phone on them at all times, that's why Nintendo needs to get into the smartphone game business.
Getting into smartphone hardware to create an integrated Nintendo hardware/software smartphone is a whole other proposition.
It basically means doing what Amazon has done with their own flavor of Android and App Store. Amazon had to build up very slowly though, making no profit on the hardware, offering free games, and marketing for app developers to publish on their store, etc. Even so the Amazon Fire phone seems set to sell just a few million units a year by which point it will be obsoleted by new hardware.
Nintendo doesn't have 1/10th the scale of Amazon, and if they have just a few million user base it is not a good platform to sell games on. Better to target the billions of existing users on the Android, iOS & Amazon app stores.
