Pokemon Go #1 on the charts

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Barkley said:

Goodnightmoon said:

No that's only you trying to get something bad out of something good. The studio that made this game is not even part of Nintendo, they didn't wasted the resources of any of their studios, yet they are about to win a ton of money with it.

If Nintendo's mobile business does incredibly well the company will shift focus. If NX isn't a success but Nintendo's mobile outings are a big success it's obvious.

With the declining dedicated handheld market mobile may very well be a huge part of Nintendo's future.

I agree.  I think it would actually be prudent for Nintendo to combine their handheld/console businesses together and have mobile replace their standalone handheld business.  If Nintendo decided to make mobile a larger part of their portfolio, they should focus on games for that platform that can be enjoyed in 2-10 minute bursts (games like Rhythm Heaven, Tomodachi Life, Brain Age, Nintendogs) and go full casual with their offerings from their established IPs.  The casual market went to smartphones and tablets so create casual expereinces that cater to them there and leave the core games on their dedicated hardware.  I would also put gimmicky spin-off games from established IPs that focus on a specific gameplay element for the whole game but feel too short or incomplete to qualify as a full retail game on mobile -- Link's Crossbow Training for instance -- I think that game would have worked well for mobile.