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Soundwave on 29 March 2015
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RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:

Yeah sure, Nintendo is making smartphone games just to advertise. 

They'll just magically hand over those smartphone profits to charity, because really it's not about making money from smartphone games, nosiree bob, right?

Oh there's denial going on, but I don't think it's coming from my end. 

If Nintendo just wants to "advertise" a make a few apps on the iOS store, why invest almost $200 million into a smartphone app company? A company of Nintendo's size can easily manage to make several smartphone games, it's not hard, average joes make them in their freaking garage all the time. 

Good luck getting a person to buy a $200-$300 seperate machine because they like a smartphone app by the app. "I'm buying a $300 XBox to play Angry Birds because I liked the iPhone app" .... said no one, ever. 

You really are an idiot. You got it completely the wrong way around.

If Nintendo just wanted to make smartphone games for profit, then they wouldn't need DeNA. Nintendo cooperates with DeNA because of their upcoming unified account system and continued maintenance of their smartphone apps. Do you think that's going to be for high score lists? No, Nintendo wants to make high quality smartphone games that make users come back preferably every day because that way they can feed them with any kind of news they want.

And of course nobody is going to buy dedicated Nintendo hardware to play smartphone games. That's why Nintendo's games for dedicated hardware will continue to stay separate from smartphone games. Think of it this way: There has been successful Angry Birds and Minecraft merchandise. Why? Because kids liked the games, so they wanted more from that IP. That's certainly going to work with Nintendo IPs and Nintendo hardware too. Or parents could say: "No, not even for Christmas. No Nintendo for you, you little brat!"

Yes, you really are an idiot.

Tsk tsk, resorting to name calling. Pretty sad. 

Nintendo caved after years of seeing their lunch get eaten by Apple and Android; justify it however you want in your head. 

Yeah sure kids will play property X/Y/Z on iPhone and then buy a completely seperate $300 platform with $60 games on it. Just like we're seeing a huge bump in Sonic and Rayman console side sales due to those properties being on iOS/Android and at least Sonic is fairly popular at that. Maybe it happens but there are serious doubts about that. 

The only thing there isn't a doubt about is that Nintendo stands to make a lot of money from smartphone games.