spemanig said:
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Can you find me a quote where they said profits from smartphones aren't important to them and this is purely a venture to advertise home/dedicated devices? I watched the presser live and read the statement from Nintendo and also read the Time Magazine interview.
They never said that. They said they were hoping for synergy but they never said that was their sole purpose.
What they did say back before this decision was they were trying to figure out how to use mobile in a way to advertise their platforms, but they were also saying then that would not make smartphone games full out, so obviously that whole plan went down the toilet at some point.
I don't think there will be nearly as much overlap here, Nintendo is going into mobile for its own merits. If they get some cross over, so be it, it's icing on the cake, but again as I said it's not the cake itself. The cake itself is mobile revenue ... revenue which who knows very well could be Nintendo's no.1 money maker in a few years.
Personally I think dedicated portables are going to decline no matter what Nintendo did, and consoles ... to be honest, the big mistake they made there was letting Microsoft ever come into the the industry and get a foothold. They needed to either head them out way back in the GCN era or have made an agreement/partnership with them before they decided to go full blown with the XBox brand.
Once they allowed Sony to walk into the industry and then let Microsoft do it too ... their days as a big player in the home console biz were always numbered. People don't want three console brands, it's only worked with the Wii and that required a miracle controller fad to pull off, something Nintendo hasn't come close to ever replicating.
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That's not just a business thing. That's a pride thing, and it would be ignorant to think that, seeing their track record, Nintendo isn't a company who's decisions aren't at least partially dictated by pride. No matter your opinion on whether handhelds will fizzle away and whether Nintendo has no chance in the home console race, Nintendo are clearly not making these decisions based off of those sentiments. They're basing them off of the opposite.
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Well Nintendo is a prideful company I don't think anyone would deny that. Sometimes that has led them into some very bad decisions.
That said I think even Nintendo is accutely aware that even with their own wishes and desires, there's a market reality taking shape that doesn't neccessarily vibe with what they would want.
They wouldn't be making smartphone games otherwise.
The other elephant in the room is profit -- big profit. If smartphone apps become their biggest money maker (which may honestly not be a large stretch) in a few years, eventually they will start to priortitize the smartphone segment. That's just how business goes.
A coach of a team doesn't keep a younger player on the bench for too long if the bottom line is he's simply playing better than the older players and putting on a show every time he's put into the game.
