What if Nintendos Next Handheld was a Smart Phone.

[wombat123]

RolStoppable said:

wombat123 said:

Oh, that's the thing that gets me worried; that investors see the dollar signs and try to force Nintendo into a business that they (from what I can gather) are ill-equipped to enter.  It's one thing to go up against Sony and MIcrosoft (in something that's not either of their main money makers) -- but to go up against giants like Apple and Samsung in their home turf -- that just spells disaster to me.

Investors don't hold any power if not a majority or at least a large plurality of them agrees on something very specific and pushes hard for it. That certain questions are brought up during Nintendo's Q&A sessions with investors doesn't mean that there is large demand from investors on the whole for specific things. So far we haven't heard about investors banding together to issue serious demands to Nintendo, nor do we know of anyone who holds a large stake in Nintendo.

Related, IIRC a major stakeholder in Sony (held around 15% of the shares) tried to tell Sony what is best for their business about two years ago, but Sony didn't do it. It takes much more than 15% to have an actual influence. It also takes serious dissatisfaction among investors to make them do something. Given how Nintendo's stock soared in recent days, you'll have a very hard time finding anyone who is dissatisfied.

That puts me at ease then.