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wombat123 on 10 July 2016
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Magnus said:
Soundwave said:

And Apple's main business was desktop computers once upon a time. Today it's probably the 4th or 5th largest part of their business. Market changes, things change. 

If Nintendo starts becoming incredibly successful as a mobile app maker ... it will change the company, I don't have much doubt about that. 

I sure hope Nintendo doesn't turn into yet another garbage mobile game developer... mobile is cancer. I don't get how casuals like primitive Atari-era games, microtransactions and pay-to-win.

The thing about mobile and Nintendo is that it caters to a lot of the casual experiences Nintendo likes to create on their handhelds.  I'm not saying Nintendo should abandon the hardware market but a lot of the types of games they like to make on handhelds are perfect for mobile while not being robust or intriguing enough to core gamers to sell as well as they should on Nintendo hardware in the current market (because the casuals fled to mobile).  Like, Rhythm Heaven is a pretty niche title on Nintendo hardware but I'm confident that it could sell gangbusters on mobile, same for a mobile Nintendogs title.  Hell, if I were Nintendo, a Nintendogs mobile-centric game would have been one of the first games I made for the platform.