Soundwave said:
If the next handheld cycle continues to be ravaged by smartphones, I wouldn't be so sure. Now is a good time for Nintendo to strike a favorable deal that protects them while they still have some leverage as a business. Because if things go badly next time out, Iwata could very well be forced out by investors, and guess what type of person they will insist on being Nintendo's next CEO? That's right ... some puppet CEO who will greenlight support for Nintendo games on iOS/Android as one of his first moves. Don't let it go there Nintendo. Protect yourself, act now and create a unified front rather than fighting two unwinnable wars at the same time. Maybe the Soviet and the Western Allies weren't natural friends, but the alternative ... a Nazi dominated Europe was sure as hell 1000x worse. |
Ah relax. The mobile market might affect the handheld gaming scene, but its not gonna flat out replace it. Comparing mobile to to handheld is like comparing a Nintendo-less Wii to the PS360 and that is being generous. Maybe it'll have the occassional gem but its got no great push behind it to give it give it a Mario-Kart/Metroid-Prime-3/Smash-Bros. The DS might have had crazy success by creating that market, but if the original PSP had enjoyed DS level core support it'd still have been a sweetly profitable machine.