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potato_hamster said:

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There is no good solution to smartphone games and cheap tablets.

In any situation, Nintendo is going to be hurt by that, if there was some magical approach that could stop kids from playing smartphone games, Nintendo would've used it by now instead of conceding and making smartphone games themselves.

That's just the reality of the situation. The point now is what's the best route they can go to make sure NX as profitable as possible.

I don't even know how many traditional hardware generations there are left ... there will be a Playstation 5 for sure, but Playstation 6 ... eh. Not so sure about that. 

I agree. The fact of the matter is that Nintendo has painted themselves into a corner where they have more or less abandoned the sector of the video game market that consistently buys high volumes of video games and video game consoles. While it's nice to have your diehards, and cater to them, it simply isn't sustainable to have those diehards as your primary market, as there's simply much more limited growth opportunities. Hopefully they figure something out, because it would be a shame to see Nintendo to go the way of Sega.

As for the console market as a whole evaporating, we shall have to wait and see. I'm not so sure the world is ready to fully embrace PC gaming, and I'm not sure that a platform, no matter how web-based, and cloud-computing dependant it is, can really last on the market. People will want to keep seeing new and fresh products. I think consoles will be around for a while longer, but I think this could be the last disc-based console unless game sizes continue to increase to a point where selling a console with just a hard drive means only being able to play a handful of games at once. Either way there are interesting directions the industry could go in just around the corner.

Nintendo really is not in the some situation as Sega though, they have billions of dollars in the bank, billions more in investment holdings, and $0 in debt. 

They will make a lot of money off smartphone games in the next 5 years, unlike the Dreamcast, NX doesn't have to "save" Nintendo. It'd be nice it made a good amount of money though. 

Sony and MS overcrowded the traditional market moreso than Nintendo abandoning it. And hats off to Sony, they have done a great job. Sometimes that all it boils down to ... someone else does a good job and you're put into a rut. What kinda irks me about MS is they don't really need the game industry and they're not even doing a great job of slowing down Sony, it would be more ideal if they just got the heck out and let Nintendo occupy the no.2 spot. 

I'm not as crazy optimistic as some of the people here, but I don't think the doom n' gloom crowd are any more right. As per usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle. 

If NX doesn't work out and Nintendo decides to go in a non-hardware centric future, so be it. They'll have been making hardware for *40* years by then, which is nothing to scoff at or be ashamed of. What consumer products from 1983 are still as releveant today as they were in the 80s? The WalkMan sure as hell isn't. The times sometimes they just change, but by equal measure Nintendo could also create the next big IP. You never know with Nintendo.