Yahoo: Pokemon is killing Nintendo because its selling too well

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While I do not agree with this article, I do believe that Nintendo needs to move into the smartphone market for their next gen. In the 80's, kids were growing up in front of televisions and Nintendo took advantage of that concept and made fortunes. Today, kids are growing up in front of Smartphones and Tablets while dedicated handhelds are antiquated and I even think that traditional living room TV's are starting to become a "parent's thing."

Obviously, selling touch-screen only games on ios for $0.99 would be disastrous for Nintendo. Nintendo never has done well competing directly with other companies. Nintendo needs to innovate, carve out a new market for itself and then establish itself as the leader in this new market before the competition has a chance to catch up. This is how Nintendo succeeded with the NES, the Gameboy, the DS, and the Wii.

I have mentioned this before, but for the next gen I think Nintendo should just give up on the dedicated handheld business and start manufacturing smartphone cases/protectors that come with circle pads and buttons. Nintendo can start marketing games that can play on the smartphone but will require the use of these buttons (ie. Nintendo would still retain some control over the hardware side via their protector cases) and this will become Nintendo's new mobile platform. Nintendo should not sell these games on ios but set-up a parallel shop for purchasing full priced games only after the protector case and driver software has been installed on the phone. The key will be for Nintendo to make these protector cases "cool" and "attractive" so that people will want them for asthetic reasons as well as for gaming.

I really believe that this is a huge opportunity for Nintendo. I wish Nintendo's management would read this thread but then I keep forgetting that I am not a big-shot and my idea"s probably not that great.

I am just a fan who wants to see Nintendo survive...