Proof Nintendo can have console games on mobile. ARM is the future.

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Nem said:

Phones aren't nor ever will be the future of gaming.

No controller? no big screen? No gaming.

Big screen and controller? It's not a mobile device.

Streams to TV? Lag in responsiveness.

If it has a controller it won't sell as well as a regular phone.

It's a physical impossibility.

 

malistix1985 said:
Many problems with full ARM/Phone/Tablet gaming, most people have quite cheap phones, so making a highly graphical one will only reach a small audience, also there are 3 different OS on phones, although obviously Android is the biggest.

There is a second big thing to consider tough, the people that want Home Consoles, Gaming PC's and so on are just a different audience, and they are quite passionate. They are willing to spent MUCH more money on gaming.

Many people on smartphones buy micro transactions and so on but they would (most) not spent 60 euro and another 30 for a season pass, end of the line, a game like Fallout4, Star wars battlefront, Call of Duty, is just impossible on current handheld devices.

At the end what I am trying to say, there is just more then 1 kind of gamer, whichever Nintendo wants to reach is up to them, there will for the foreseeable future be a demand for traditional Home Consoles and Steam but if Nintendo wants to step out, they could do it. The worst thing they could do is make something that stays in the middle and doesn't appeal to either group, which is something the NX sounds like in SOME rumours.

 

Aeolus451 said:
Might want to wait till the eggs hatch before you start counting chickens. Is Uncharted 4 or Dark Souls 3 on phones? No. Phones will never able to play current gen AAA games because the cost of the phones would get too high unless the game is really weak compared to the other games. I'm not saying that games won't sell on mobile but people need to keep their expectations grounded to reality.

 

Exactly. Some years ago I thought that powerful tablets/phones would run AAA console games, but today we have devices like iPad Air 2/iPad Pro and the big AAA games didn't come out. Mobile gaming is big but it's got its own audience and its own sort of games.

Nintendo using ARM isn't news. 3DS is ARM.

If Nintendo decides to go mobile-only, that'd mean that Nintendo just left the traditional gaming industry.