Yahoo: Pokemon is killing Nintendo because its selling too well

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ZTxGhost said:

KBG29 said:
Although this article is a little over dramatic, it is heading in the right direction.The responses on this site are just as outlandish as the opinion posted in this piece.

Nintendo needs to do something while they still have strong brand power. They have no chance against the likes of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and Sony. Sony's smart phone buisness is seen as a massive failure at this point, and they are still selling 40M a year. Samsung and Apple, are selling nearly 40M units a quarter.

All of these devices have multiple full fledged music, movie, TV, and E-book services that Nintendo can never compete with. These plaftorms have an openess that a Nintendo device will never copmpete with. And each new iteration continues to outperform Nintendo hardware with a biggger and bigger gap. The control options are getting much better on many android and apple devices as well.

With Microsoft and Sony pushing more support for gaming out to their smartphones, and extending to outside manufactures, the reason to own a Nintendo device are getting slimmer and slimmer. People can already enjoy PS4 games on Sony's Xperia Z line phones, and PS Now is coming to Sony and non Sony Smart phones starting next year. Microsoft demoed Halo 4 running on the cloud last year, and will be coming with their own streaming based service. Nvidia has a massive push going for game streaming both from home computers, and cloud processing.

So, the two things smartphones were missing (quality games and controls) will be coming in droves over the next year. In return, the two things that kept Nintendo handhelds alive (quality games and controls) will no longer be a meaningful reason to purchase a Nintendo to complement a smartphone.

Then there is their home console situation, but that is another peice for another thread.

Nintendo games will never work on tablet/smart phone. The market and consumer base is just too radically different from their current audience. 

I don't know where that theory comes from. The same people that are using smartphones are the same people using 3DS, or that used gameboys, or PSP before. The only difference is a lot of those people have moved to smartphones, because they just offer more, and for many the minimal to decent games available are enough to get them through the day.

That does not mean that a massive amount of those people are not looking for a quality gaming experience from their phone. Many people are ready and willing to lay down $40 dollars for a mobile game at the same quality as Nintendo or Sony's handheld offerings. 

If Nintendo just tested the waters with an old title, then they would see the massive potential they are throwing away. If they put up Pokemon Red for $20 it would outsell these new Pokemon games by 10 fold, if they put it up for $5 it would sell 50M easily.