| hsrob said:
Sony used to own 13% but they sold it off a year or so ago. OT: Why would Nintendo even consider going up against the experience of Samsung and Apple and attempt to break into the smartphone market? Even Sony, who is a much, much bigger company, with a much broader portfolio, is losing that fight badly, despite having really great hardware. They would need to ensure the device is affordable so they would likely be aiming at the lower end of the Android market, competing against the up and coming (huge) Chinese manufacturers and again, to what end? They would have the additional overhead of R+D of another new device that would require more frequent hardware refreshes than Nintendo are accustomed to, developing and maintaining an OS skin (no point just using stock Android) in line with Android updates, all the additional overhead of negotiating and managing telco deals/data plans and all the other bells and whistles that come with marketing and supporting smartphones.....all in an industiry where they have no experience. All for the purposes of making, maybe, a small profit on the hardware and broadening the market they sell games to? They will already be doing that by releasing to the App Store and Google Play and won't be limiting their audience to a particular hardware platform. I honestly can't see what benefit there would be in it for them. |
Well, in the same principle that Nintendo is in the console market where they obviously do not directly compete with Sony or Microsoft. They may be able to take advantage of a middle-end platform with Nintendo IPs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYCDDVSq_2o
