GamechaserBE said:
Game_God said:
GamechaserBE said:
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.
|
Strange because almost everyone agrees that a lot of gamers in Japan went to tablet/smart phone games and they came from consoles/handhelds before.
|
So what are you saying?
Sony & MS should drop ASAP PS4 & X1 'cause: "almost everyone agrees that a lot of gamers in Japan went to tablet/smart phone games and they came from consoles/handhelds before"?
Dang, Sony sure was dumb to dump their tablet making Vaio brand...
|
Indeed because Sony/Nintendo/MS will not make (a lot of) money with their consoles in Japan and have to invest/moneyhatt heavy to make some sales in Japan...
Anyway
Japan’s smartphone games market now worth $5.4 billion, half of total gaming industry
According to a new report, Japan’s domestic smartphone gaming market was worth JPY 546.8 billion (US$5.4 billion) in 2013, up a staggering 178 percent from 2012.
The report comes from CyberZ, a subsidiary of Tokyo-based internet conglomerate CyberAgent (TYO:4751).
What’s interesting about the new figures is that the smartphone gaming sector has now reached roughly half the value of the overall Japanese gaming industry, which is sized at JPY 1.1 trillion yen (US$10.8 billion) in 2013.
Observe how that ratio increased from less than 30 percent a year earlier:
|
Ok, if you think Sony & Ms should follow that route too, then you are being logical & that's your opinion.
I was afraid that this path was only a "salvation" for Nintendo.
Yet I don't agree that future of gaming is the mini-app tablet/phone model. Of the 3 console makers though, I only see Nintendo pulling it with some success if it comes to that, they have a large experience of quick portable games on the go! On top of that they the franchises that would fit the better in this kind of games.
Sony & MS cinematic & immersing type of games... not so much. Sony has proven well enought that they don't understand portable gaming, all they do is port home console games to portable.
Nintendo should make an hybrid portable device: Phone/console, with 2 distinct E-shops, 1 for regular games & one with mini-app king of games.
