Is Nintendo's jump into mobile their new fail safe in case of a poorly selling console?

[DanneSandin]

RolStoppable said:
You are off.

Your premise that the handheld is keeping Nintendo afloat is already flawed, because it was the 3DS that was responsible for Nintendo's first fiscal year loss in the video game business.

The next point where you are wrong is that Nintendo's mobile strategy is about subsidizing a potentially ailing console business. Those aren't their plans at all, rather it's about increased exposure for their IPs. Said exposure will get more people to buy Nintendo hardware. So it isn't a contingency plan to have another source of income, it is a plan to sell more software for their dedicated hardware.

I agree with your analysis; mobile gaming will funtion as a gate way to Nintendo consoles, but cant this strategy be two folds? 1) indirectly drive sales of hardware and, 2) generate money and indirectly function as a back up plan?

we cant be sure that people will pick up the NX just because they played Pokemon Go on their mobile phone; "casuals" seem pretty content with justgaming on their smart phones. What then? If people doesnt flock to Nintendos HW, should they simply drop out of the mobile business? Or use it as a second (or third) source of income?