RolStoppable said:
Soundwave said:
The truth is though there's no path way for Nintendo that's not frought with considerable risk.
If I can get my young 'uns a Nintendo tablet that has equal/better performance to an overpriced iPad for half the price ... that's something I can understand a parent buying.
I'll disagree on more functionality being a con. I think even kids today have changed, you can't sell them the same song and dance from the 80s/90s and think the modern consumer is going to go for it. With Android functionality the next Nintendo handheld at least would have the functionality that people expect from a modern device without Nintendo having to spend a fortune making an OS from scratch and then trying to convince app-makers to give them support. Even Microsoft with Windows Phone has run into a brick wall trying to match Android and iOS' software app functionality.
I think Nintendo could control the prices of software too, because like Kindle Fire and tablets like that, they can have their own custom store, and thus decided how many apps are available and also take a licensing fee when an app is sold through their shop. The publisher won't care as long as they get an app sale. Realistically though they are competing against smart phone apps whether they admitted it or not, at least now maybe they'll be able to get a cut of it.
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Nintendo won't make a device to compete with smart devices, and neither are they interested in doing so.
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They're in competition with those devices whether they like it or not. A device running an Android OS on it is basically a "smart device" too (Android is far and away the no.1 "smart device" OS), semantics really won't change that.
