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Soundwave on 19 July 2016
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Nuvendil said:
Soundwave said:

Animal Crossing and Fire Emblem are coming, I'm guessing Mario, Mario Kart, and Zelda are not far off either. 

Nintendo will still make dedicated/deeper game experiences for NX, but there's no doubt in my mind now that they will unleash their full franchise catalog on mobile, just in ways that make sense for mobile (IE: You'll get a touch based Zelda adventure with smaller dungeons, smaller burst play sessions ala the DS Zeldas, rather than a OoT port or something). 

Mobile is something Nintendo is going to take dead serious now, and really who can stop them? Super Cell? They have like one franchise. Nintendo has so much they could exploit on mobile. Even things like Nintendogs ... there's no reason that couldn't be brought back on mobile. Hell, they could even make new IP on mobile too. 

I highly doubt you'll see what you are envisioning.  They will almost certainly follow the GO model from here on:  very distinct experiences from their handhelds that are specifically made for mobile and that don't overlap.  It's not just going to be them shoving every IP on mobile, only ones that can work as GO has in some fashion.  I really doubt we'll see Mario  Kart, Smash, F-Zero, or other franchises that demand by design high-precision inputs cause that still sucks on mobile.  We will see things like Nintendogs, Brain Age, etc I think as support titles.    

Also, as for Zelda...I could see a game that's just dungeons perhaps, where you progress from one to the next etc.  Main issue I could see is that mobile needs a LONG running progression loop to find success normally, Zelda usually has a hard limit to that and it would be tricky to gain the length needed without making it super grind-happy.   

You'll see Mario Kart, there's too much money on the table, racing games is actually a big genre on mobile. Real Racing 3 has like 300 million downloads, Angry Birds Go 100+ million downloads. 

Zelda will happen too, they can come up with different ways to make it work on mobile. Nintendo's design prowess is light years beyond other mobile developers, they know how to make this stuff work well (see also: Wii and DS).