While the company is certainly showing a lot of support for mobile at present, they've certainly not abandoned their own consoles, as they've made clear from the very start. Miyamoto commented on this as well, noting that work on consoles will continue as it always has, but also that something has changed for Nintendo: their platforms are no longer "the most popular in the world." That honor, they've realized, now goes to mobile devices, which is what led them to start embracing this new form of gaming.
" I love hardware platforms and Nintendo will continue to make our own hardware but what’s changed is that there was a time when Nintendo’s platforms were the most popular in the world and now we see smartphones are the most popular device in the world. So we’ll keep looking for opportunities in smartphones and when we see them we’ll design something specifically for that hardware."
It's definitely great that they are taking mobile more seriously, some might even say that it should have happened earlier. I would argue that, at least on the console side of things, Nintendo platforms stopped being the most popular since the 5th gen. The 7th gen was the exception, of course.
Link: https://www.gamnesia.com/news/nintendo-will-continue-focusing-on-consoles-but-they-now-recognize-that-mob
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