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Soundwave said:
Miyamotoo said:

Pokemon Go is so popular because concept of game that suits perfectly to mobile platforms, you will hardly achieve something like that on mobile platforms with Mario Kart. Animal Crossing could also suit great to mobile platforms, but IPs like Zelda, Mario Kart, Mario, Donkey Kong, Smash Bros, Splatoon...not merely because you can only have real and full exparanice on dedicated gaming platform for those games.

Pokemon Go will effect that Nintenodo push a little more their mobile effort, they will definitely not abonde dedicated gaming platform only because Pokemon Go success, Like I wrote, nothing will change alredy good strategie they made, like I wrote, point is that Nintendo can have they dedicated hardware platform and strong mobile presence in same time, with Amiibos, toys, themed parks, movies...and thats best way to go and that exatly Nintendo is doing. 

Nintendo is multi billion company with long history, they will definitely not change their strategy so easy just because current success of one mobile game. Pokemon Go is maybe current goldmine, but what will be in year, two, 5 years from now, if will still be gold mine, why would they close itself possibilities of choices and opportunities for hardware and console gaming just because current success of one mobile game when they dedicated platform still make profit even when they have basically the worst generation. And Nintendo is company that like to have possibilities and full control, they will definitely not become only software company, they expanding their business to toys, mobile games, themed parks, movies...they want to be more like Disney or Apple, they definitely not aiming to be just onother 3rd party.

 

Actually racing games as a genre are pretty huge on iOS/Android ... Real Racing 3 I think someone was saying has 300 million downloads, Angry Birds Go has well over 100 million downloads, which is more than every Mario Kart game combined has sold. 

Mario Kart would be big. 

Even Zelda I think could work on iOS/Android, Nintendo already did (basically) touch only Zeldas on the DS and they worked well enough. If the Final Fantasy games do very good business on mobile, I think Zelda would too. 

Those races are mostly motion controls racers. Angry Birds mobile game in its core. You really comparing downloadables of those free or $1 games with sales of $60 game!?

Get real, you cant have nearly same experience of 3D Zelda BotW on big TV with physical controls compared to mobile platform.

And we already know Nintendo said they will make specific games for mobile platform, not ports of their games for their dedicated platforms.

 

Nintendo not leving hardware market, its so obvious.