| RolStoppable said: What should actually be obvious is that such a move would be a threat to Nintendo's core business. The first consequence is that people will start to assume that they'll never have to buy Nintendo hardware, because all the games will eventually release on a smartphone, tablet or whatever. The second consequence is that touch controls would result in inferior controls in almost all cases, so the impression that people got of Nintendo games wouldn't necessarily be positive. With Pokémon Go having a notable positive effect on 3DS hardware and software sales, Nintendo now has confirmation that their intended strategy is going to work, so they'll follow that strategy and therefore nothing is going to change about how they'll treat mobile. |
But playing traditional games with touchscreen isn't that awful. Less complex controls like Gameboy and Nes can be replicated and with a few tweaks it is good enough. More complex controllers like SNES and N64 would be more challenging, but not impossible. For an example of how traditional games can work well with touchscreen looks for the Sonic ports for Android. I really enjoyed the experience I had with Sonic CD. And I think Nintendo would have a good marketing with thia cheap entry in their framchises. And let's face it, emulation is a reality, and a reality Nintendo can't do much about it. They are waking up to those things, they just announced NES Classic to take their shares of the Nes Clones. I think it would be a good idea to make money where there are none right now.
