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Soundwave on 25 March 2015
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sundin13 said:
Soundwave said:

Yeah but would Nintendo be doing this if their traditional gaming systems were doing great? 

Very unlikely. 

They probably wouldn't even have done this if they felt like the NX had some break out new feature they could really sell it with. 


Maybe...thats a bit of a silly question though. We have no way of knowing, and honestly, they have been dipping their toes into expansion and mobile-like experiences for a while now. Saying "Nintendo would never make mobile games" is based on virtually no evidence and going so far as to imply that they are doing this due to a weak future outlook based on NX forecasts is stretching this lack of evidence even thinner...

They saw a source of profit, which had reached a point of low risk and high reward, and decided to pursue this source of profit.


They've denied having interest in and even downplayed smartphone games for years. Iwata has said several times on record that they will not make games for smart devices, even as recently as like 8-9 months ago. 

IMO if they were sitting on some Wiimote like idea for the NX that had a fair chance of taking off and becoming a hit, they wouldn't be doing this. 

This isn't some small experiment either, a almost $200 million dollar investment in DeNA may honestly be the largest investment in their company history. They could make a smartphone game or two I'm sure if they really wanted to "test the waters" ... this is a full blown shift in business strategy. 

Interally I think some thing big happened at Nintendo, there probably was a faction within the business structure of the company that was extremely unhappy with the company's current and future business prospects and Iwata came under a lot of pressure to make this decision. I think the whole "well we have this quality of life thing coming" angle simply wasn't cutting it anymore.