| DerpSandwich said: Ugh. I'm all for this whole move, but the idea of Nintendo's already-spread-thin production teams devoting time to smartphone games and reducing the output of full games even further is just dreadful. |
This is why the NX/Fusion concept might be great for them.
Imagine if they only had one console/hardware to develop on that was theres. Let's just take the past 2 years since Wii U came out...you'd have the following games on the same console:
Super Mario 3D World
Bayonetta 2
Super Smash Bros 4
Fire Emblem Awakening
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Mario Kart 8
Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze
Bravely Default
Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire
Pokemon X/Y
Paper Mario Sticker Star
Pikmin 3
Luigi's Dark Mansion
Animal Crossing New Leaf
Mario & Luigi Dream Team
Tomodachi Life
New Super Mario Bros U
New Super Luigi U
Lego City Undercover
Wonderful 101
Yoshi's NEW Island
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker
Kirby And The Rainbow Curse
Kirby Triple Deluxe
Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy
Mario Golf World Tour
Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright
Fantasy Life
NES Remix
Wii Party U
Game & Wario
Codename STEAM
Mario Party 10
and probably some others I forgot to mention
PLUS some of those 3DS third party games (Harvest Moon, Shin Megami Tensei or other Atlus releases perhaps)
Then they could use the mobile games to put cheap minigames (something like the mini-games of Nintendo Land or a Zelda fishing mini-game) and stream/connect to your account and access your Virtual Console games.
In the end, you might end up with one unified console that has plenty of Nintendo support that you don't even need 3rd party support. And Nintendo increases it's brand recognition by putting some mini-games into mobile users hands. Mobile users love the mini-games, buy virtual console games on their mobile platforms and decide to upgrade to a NX.
