Mummelmann said:
And lol at that stock going up and up, just goes to show that all they need to do is change strides and break tradition, which is what I've been wanting them to do for ages. I'm really, really happy about this news and I hope they manage to build a venture for the future and stop themselves from lagging several years behind the competition on almost all fronts; it's not doing them any favors and neither are their fans for making a debackle over this, appologists are harmful to any company and people should be cheering them on. The greatest irony of it all? In the Wii's heyday, gamers were shouting that "this direction in gaming will steal funding and attention away from the games I enjoy!" and now people are going "Nintendo will divert funds and attention to mobile games and take it away from the games I enjoy!" For someone who's been a long time; it is not lost on me. |
Bolded: A very interesting point, (as is your final paragraph) especially when Iwata pointed out:
"Last year, an unprecedented thing in the history of the Japanese video game market happened: Five titles for Nintendo 3DS sold more than two million copies each in the latter six-month period of 2014. As this record-breaking incident attests, video game software sales have been progressing smoothly on dedicated video game hardware even after smart devices have become widespread in this country."
No way are they going to ditch handheld for mobile when they've proved that handheld and mobile can co-exist in this way in Japan. Very sensible, then, to get into both.
