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curl-6 on 12 September 2014
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Vena said:
curl-6 said:

It's the last of its breed because smartphone gaming is taking over. That's why 3DS has shrunk so much from the DS.

And as I recall, Nintendo have posted losses for the last few years. To get back on track, they need to stop being complacent and start being proactive. They need to listen to the market instead of just doing their own thing.


Smartphone gaming is going to collapse in the near future. The whole ecosystem is disastrous and cancerous for actual game developers, and its next to impossible to make a successful expensive title because it will be undercut by derivative rip-offs that work off of the borderline (increasingly in EU) illegal freemium.

Nintendo posted losses because they had been selling both consoles at a loss, and were restructuring as well as investing several hundred billion yen in new facilities for R&D and game development. That has not been the case for a long time now. You are making a basic grade school falacy by trying to somehow tie together entirely seperate cause and affects. Remember, correlation does not imply causation. The 3DS is looking at a smaller market share but its still a large market share, and we have to take into account that it started off terribly because of numerous reasons. There are many things that Nintendo can (and is doing) to make their next handheld system something better than the 3DS.

What's gotten over you? Not only is this thread entirely built on missing the forest for the trees, but now its being filled with nonsensical jargon?

My previous post answers a lot of this, but smartphone gaming is not going to disappear. They may make garbage, but sadly it's profitable and popular garbage, and when people can get their entertainment on their phone for 99c, paying $30 per game on top of $200 for a dedicated handheld becomes an unrealistic sell.

Larger games can survive on consoles, so that's where the fight for Nintendo's long term survival will be fought. And to win that battle, they will have to start acting a lot smarter than they are at present.