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Ouroboros24 on 25 March 2015
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Soundwave said:
sundin13 said:


As they denied releasing a new model of the 3DS a week before its announcement. PR. Until the time was right, Nintendo planned to stick to its guns, but as the market changed and as Nintendo experimented with mobile-like experiences on its own devices, the door opened wider and wider until they felt that they could safely enter the market with harming the value of their games or their brand. (Also, from what I recall, Iwata hasn't made a hardline stance on smartphone games since 2011, with more recent comments showing that Nintendo was sticking out its feelers).

Once again, the statement that Nintendo wouldn't be doing this if they had a "wiimote like idea" is merely supposition. If Nintendo felt like this could be a venue for increasing their brand power and gaining an additional source of revenue, why wouldn't they do it?

Why not make games for Playstation too then? 

This is more the sum result of Nintendo's failure over the past 5 years with the traditional game market and a declining outlook for the future. 

Mobile gaming has been a big money maker for years now, it's not like it was some realization Nintendo just made in the last year. 

And there is still risk here of cannibalization of their market, I think Nintendo at this point simply feels like there's nothing they can do either way to prevent that, so they may as well make money off mobile rather than watch it eat the handheld market entirely. 

I think it's because they don't see phones as major competitors.  Going mobile gives Nintendo a lot of leverage and breathing room from all sides of media.  Here they are getting blasted on by Forbes, Motely Fools, Times, whatever media outlet is covering them this week for nothing going mobile, not to mention the stockholders and general concerned gaming fans.  Stepping onto the mobile field gets them advertisement, new players, older players that no longer play their games.  Its a way for them to expand at a relatively low cost of entry.  As for cannibalizing their own product, it will be as it is today.  Some will buy the dedicated hardware and some won't, but most likely if you own a smart phone, you would have easier entry point to Nintendo than not at all.  Plus, it's been stated that mobile games and their hardware games are not going to overlap.  It's a good thing.