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Soundwave said:
Akeos said:

I don't think Nintendo have any choise... 

DS 150 millions 

3DS 55 millions...

Smartphones are what Apple and Android choise to do... But Nintendo can make a OS with a another philosophy,  more confidentiality,  intégred new technologie, more protection for Child and Web... 

And put in front à lots games with theirs licences,  only on smartphone NX !

If they take only 2% of smartphones business,  it's a lots of millions selling... 

Microsoft or Blackberry haven't been able to make any headway in the phone market.

People want Apple or Android's ecosystem and nothing but, and Nintendo's brand is too associated with kids to be taken seriously overnight by adults who basically rely on their phone for their entire social and business life. It wouldn't fly and Nintendo has nowhere near the marketing acumen to pull it off.

They have problems selling video games to modern teenagers ... as a video game company. Good luck with phones and adults.

Like I said if they wanted to go this route the best thing to do would simply be to team up with Apple and/or Samsung and make Nintendo branded controllers for existing phones that people actually want. No one's looked the crappy Wii/3DS/DS/Wii U OS and said "gee I'd love for this to be the OS for my phone which I depend on for my job and keeping in touch with all my friends". Nintendo can't even get cross platform purchases working seamlessly.

 

Wiiu OS make good job, it works like Android, there is some apps like Netflix or youtube apps,  easy to surf on Web because wiiu have panel screen... 

And run on ARM processor... 

The heart of Nintendo is the software, in 2014 Iwata say " on Apple and Android, there is one way of programming,  Nintendo have to be like them indid... "

Nintendo works on a big OS,  probably Android frienly, perhaps advanced cloud computing fonctions... and looking at all connected devices,  make family of products like Apple... In first smartphone...