Former Sega CEO: Nintendo should keep making hardware and bring IPs to smartphones

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b00moscone said:

StarOcean said:
I do think some Nintendo IPs could go on iOS without killing them. NES/SNES games can go for $5 and under easily and make a ton of money from them. Beyond SNES could be a gray area, but theres no reason for them not to put at least NES games on the smartphone market

I think in order to make consumers buy them, Nintendo has to completely wipe emulators from smartphones, because if they can just get them from there, then they won't pay.

So why are Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Sonic and many other ports of classic games selling well on mobile? They could also be played with emulators.

Many would pay for Nintendo classics on mobile, even if emulators aren't "completely wiped out". Not everyone wants to install emulators or download illegal roms. Additionally Nintendo could "test the waters" on iOS, only a fraction of the iOS-users jailbrreak their devices to enable emulators.