NX Mock-Up Thread (UPDATED: New Awesome Mock-Ups!)

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Soundwave said:

DanneSandin said:

I'm still torn on this whole idea of Nintendo accessing the app-market with their next console. It could be a total success, like you said, or it could be an utter failure, like Rol said. The risk of having 1000's of free app-games on your console is that people (kids) starts to think ALL games should be free, which will lead to them not buying any actual games from Nintendo.

The problem is Nintendo is never going to stop kids from playing free apps. They know free apps are there. Now does Nintendo want any chance of getting those kids to choose their device or not?

Because if they make this about "it's our way or their way", then they are going to lose. A Nintendo NX that is a walled garden device only plays Nintendo games (at $40-$60 a pop) and a smattering of third party games is going to lose on entertainment value versus a tablet that can play kids cartoons, Snap Chat, video, Facebook, Candy Crush, and thousands of other games for free. 

Nintendo just can't compete with the entertainment versatility a tablet can offer to kids and adults. 

Besides, mobile is no longer Nintendo's "enemey" it's time to start viewing it as a main pillar of Nintendo's business. Pokemon GO is the biggest thing associated with Nintendo in a decade easily. On NX, Nintendo can get a 100% cut of their mobile app revenues (instead of giving Apple/Google 30%) and they can take 30% of all those other apps too. 

They may have to adjust some of their pricing structure, they may have to accept some NX kids will simply be happy with free games alone (but they can still make money off that on the NX and sell their own Nintendo apps), but that is what it is. There's no putting the genie of free mobile apps back into the bottle now, it's out, the question now is whether you want to be friends with the genie or enemies with it. 

Even if there a person who buys a NX and only ever buys 3 games for it in its life time (lets say they really love Mario Kart and 2D Mario and basically nothing else) and spends the rest of the time playing freemium games (on which I take home 30% of that profit), I'd rather have their business than have them buy an iPad or Android tablet instead. 

 

I disagree with just about everything you said. I am not going to go back and forth with you because I have read your posts and for you to understand my point of view, you would have to deconstruct your current mode of thinking and I know that is simply not going to happen. With that said, your last comment is absolutely audacious. You are basically saying Nintendo should accept another Wii situation. No, no, no. Nintendo does not want that. Nintendo should want to grow their business in a way that is more conducive to their long term growth. Building your brand in that way has proven not very successful for a company like Nintendo (see: Atari).

Now, you will point to tablets and phones and maintain that those are healthy products with great growth. And I assume you will ignore the fact that these devices are not primarily gaming devices which puts them in a different position than a dedicated video gaming company. Assuming this is the case, I will not indulge you there because that just shows how we have completely different viewpoints and approaches to the same situation.

Again, I agree with just about nothing you said, and I will respectfully do so. But there is a motto that, "not all business is good business" and in the case of Nintendo, in their currect and traditional company structure, the type of business you are speaking of is not the best business for the company. Especially in the long term.