Nintendo: We Weren't "Cornered" Into Making Smartphone Games

[zorg1000]

JRPGfan said:

zorg1000 said:
It's good to see Nintendo expanding, no longer will the company 100% rely on their dedicated platforms to get them by in tough times.

Quality of Life
Games/apps for Smart Devices
Amiibo
IP licensing (things like rumored Mario CG movie or Zelda Netflix series)

All of these things bringing in steady profits for Nintendo will help alot in the future. Just making dedicated hardware/software is a tough market, everything is great when u make huge hits like Wii/DS but if u slip up and end up with Wii U/3DS, things aren't nearly as peachy and having new sources of revenue certainly will help during the tough times.

Good for stock holders, worried about nintendo profits.

Bad for gamers that like nintendo makeing consol games, because it sounds like your saying their going to swift focus and spend LESS time makeing games.

That's not what I'm saying at all.

Last gen, Nintendo sold 250 million units of hardware and about 1.8 billion units of software, they made a ton of money and were in a great financial state.

This generation, Nintendo is on track to sell about 1/3 that amount of hardware & software while also posting a loss in the last 3 years. That's not a good place to be in and what if that decline continues next gen? Can Nintendo get by from selling 50 million units of hardware and 200-300 million units of software over the course of 5-6 years? Probably not.

Nintendo is simply setting themselves up for a future where they aren't 100% reliant on the success of 2 products (dedicated handheld and console). It's not like QoL products, Amiibo, or TV/movie licensing are taking away resources from Nintendo's game studios. The only possible concern could be that Mobile games will take away from their traditional software output but with their recent restructuring by bringing together the handheld & console teams and offering a unified architecture/operating system going forward, Nintendo is able to counter that with a more streamlined software development approach.

Branching out and finding new revenue streams is only a good thing and will benefit Nintendo as a whole.