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UltimateUnknown on 10 September 2016
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KLXVER said:
UltimateUnknown said:
If a year ago someone said the exact same words Miyamoto said as to why Nintendo should start releasing their games on smartphones, they would be burned alive at the stake. Yet now the Nintendo fans are so glad that Nintendo has "come to their senses". Heck I remember the amount of hate Pachter got when he mentioned at some point that Nintendo is leaving huge money on the table by not bringing their games to smartphones. How times have changed.

That being said, I personally am not interested in playing any smartphone games. I just hope Nintendo doesn't lose their true identity which in the search for the smartphone success.

Its not like Mario Run would have been made on the 3DS or WiiU if Nintendo decided not to enter the mobile market. Its just a simple title to get people interested in the franchise. If the next Mario game for the NX is also being released on mobiles, then I would start worrying.

Fair enough. I agree that at this point it's is a wait and see game. I just can't help but wonder what Nintendo will be thinking a few years down the road if most of their big franchises are runaway successes and money printing machines on mobile like Pokemon Go, especially if NX doesn't sell that well and the software on it barely makes them much profit with all the hard work put into them compared to mobile where games are so much simpler to make both financially and technically. With they feel so inclined to invest big on console titles when they've tasted the massive easy money on mobile?

Nintendo unlike other developers on mobile already has generations worth of brand recognition to easily have their titles be noticed on smartphones, so they're not going to get lost in the shuffle of the mobile market that most small developers succumb to.