| t3mporary_126 said: As a long time Nintendo owner and fan, why would I buy a Nintendo smartphone for its casual Pokemon Go and others when I can get an iPhone like the rest of my family that has iMessage? I think its too late and I recognize people said the same thing for Pokemon Go and Miitomo but Nintendo is more known for their software than their hardware. The non-phone model seems expensive like the 3DS was at launch and will do just as bad. Nintendo should just make a cheap portable that syncs with your phone to receive push notifications and possibly play smartphone games with it traditional controller. No need to price hike it to be like a smartphone. So no expensive cameras, gps, and expensive and horrible battery life when playing games. |
Well like I said Nintendo doesn't need to compete with Apple or Samsung. They don't need to sell 100 million+ phones a year (would be nice of course, lol).
Even 10-12 million/year for the phone model + say 8-12 million/year for the non-phone model would give Nintendo portable sales they haven't seen since the DS era.
They can also undercut Apple on cost big time.
I would seriously consider a $399.99 Nintendo phone *IF* it ran a forked Android OS that let me do everything a regular smartphone does with the same apps, AND I could play Nintendo games on it?
Yeah, I'd switch. Not everyone would and I'll conceed most wouldn't, but it really sucks to break a $1000 iPhone too and have to buy a replacement.
Nintendo could carve out a nice niche as a no.3 or no.4 phone maker. Nothing wrong with that, money is money. Not only from phone sales but on their own phones they would now also be able to get licensing fee money on all those other apps like Candy Crush, Game of War, Clash of Clans, Mobile Strike, as well, instead of paying Apple and Google 30% of their game take.
