| Soundwave said: Imagine Nintendo taking home a 30% cut of all mobile profits (instead of Apple or Google) ... Candy Crush, Angry Birds, Pokemon Go (lol) on this device too. A 16GB iPad Mini is actually $399.99, lol. If Nintendo could offer a $299.99 NX with Android games, apps, and Nintendo games + home console play, if I'm a parent I may look at that instead of having to buy them the damn iPad + another $300 gaming console. If one device could keep the kiddies happy I think a lot of parents would be happy with that. The one thing detachable controllers introduce too that normal tablets can't really do is simultaneous multiplayer gaming on a tablet like device. Right now kids do play mobile games together, but it mostly consists of passing the tablet around and taking turns, Nintendo would have a feature with detachable controllers that no tablet really uses today. So there's that too. |
Nintendo is in no position to make anyone their bitch, especially not Google. They would have to license Android, it's not share ware. And Google would make darn sure THEY got the big cut. Nintendo MIGHT get a paltry sum, 5% if they are really lucky. And if they didn't use droid they wouls have to do some work to get any of those mobile devs to risk a port and providing regular support.
Also, how are mobile apps - apps so dang ubiquitous you can get a device to play them for $100 or less - free in conjunction with a plan -going to lure ANYONE NEW to the dedicatee hardware space? The most popular apps on mobile are so pathetically basic they can run on almost anything. And a key part of their success is that they are a side benefit tied to a device you have at all times, that convenience. No one will buy a separate device just for mobile games. And before you bring up substantive ones like Modern Combat, Chaos Rings, and Asphalt, why would anyone spend hundreds of dollars for access to that when 1) tue vast majority of smartphojes that people already have can play them and 2) they could spend the same money and get access to CoD, Battlefield, Elder Scrolls, Final Fantasy, and Forza/GT which are far MORE substantive and polished? The mobile space has no pull whatsoever in the dedicated gaming space at all. Every attempt to use it in that space has been a miserable failure.
Also, stop pretending iPads are the only tablets. You can get good tablets for cheaper than Apple's overpriced crap. If Nintendo wants kids and parents back, they need to make a concerted marketing effort to convince parents that the more substantive, meaningful, and actively engaging experiences found in premium dedicated devices is better for their children. I think they could do that to, if they would spend the money. Also, in your analyses, you have to think like the UNINFORMED, not the informed when discussing parents and such. That audience is primarily made up of the ignorant who (and I've seen this first hand) would rather buy 3 to 4 crappy licensed or shovel ware games for $20 for their kid on Christmas than pony up $20 for Mario Galaxy. That's who you're dealing with.
Also, I should think the detachable controler bits are two halves of a more or less conventional controller. The6 detach so that you can dock the screen/core into the base and then the detatched hits could be put together to form one normal controller. They are not two independent controllers, they split the inputs.
