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Kai_Mao on 08 May 2016
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SonytendoAmiibo said:
SamLeheny said:
Well if you can afford both, then the answer is always to get both (assuming you won't want to support the exploitative format split between the three major players)
But if money's tight and you have to make a choice... yeah, I think Nintendo are on the way out of the home console market.
We'll have to wait and see if the NX does well (or what the hell the NX even is for that matter) but I'm seriously worried about Nintendo at the moment.

With the announcement of not showing the NX at E3 and simultaneously announcing full blown Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing games on mobile I'm starting to think Nintendo is just stringing along the hard core fans while they make the move to mobile.

This move would quiet the massive outcry hardcore Nintendo fans would make about them going fully mobile. If Nintendo delays the NX again in March 2017 then they would have convinced me they in fact are leaving the console business altogether.

They never said Animal Crossing for mobile was going to be a full blown game akin to the other games in the franchise nor did they say the same thing about FE. They even said that AC mobile would connect to the console games in some shape or form. Read all of their Q&As and their announcements carefully before saying that they are "full-blown" games. 

We're reading way too much into things. Nintendo wants to be ready with NX and they just didn't think a 2016 release would be sufficient from what I've heard. Plus, they probably want all the worldwide attention to themselves instead of sharing and fighting for attention at E3, which kinda has been weird for Nintendo. From what I've heard, one of the reasons they did directs instead of press conferences is because they want to control how their message is being sent instead of having inaccurate quotes or misunderstandings that the press tends to do with Nintendo. I don't know exactly, but that's what I heard.

Nevertheless, they have not shown signs of going full on mobile, nor signs of going out of the console market. They want to use it as a platform to raise awareness of their IPs. Like the theme parks, anime/tv shows, films, amiibo, and other merchandise. I'm guessing they want to be a more multimedia company since video games are the main thing, and for almost 30 years, only thing, they've done as a business.